What Chaucer's 'Good Women' Dared Not Say
- Author / Editor
- Aloni, Gila.
What Chaucer's 'Good Women' Dared Not Say
- Published
- Leo Carruthers and Adrian Papahagi, eds. Paroles et silences dans la littrature anglaise au Moyen Age (Paris : Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 2003), pp. 119-34.
- Description
- Three concerns in LGW--space in "Thisbe," rhetoric in "Lucrece," and the exchange of women in "Hypsipyle and Medea"--demonstrate that the power of apparently passive women lies in their moral superiority over men.
- Alternative Title
- Paroles et silences dans la littérature anglaise au Moyen ₍ge.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.