The Rhetoric of Feminine Virtue : Fashioning Femininity, Stabilizing Masculinity, 1350-1603

Author / Editor
Crocker, Holly Adryan.

Title
The Rhetoric of Feminine Virtue : Fashioning Femininity, Stabilizing Masculinity, 1350-1603

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 3373A, 1999.

Description
Female characters may reveal the weakness or value of male characters. Crocker examines BD and TC, as well as Spenser's "Faerie Queene" and Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Book of the Duchess.