What Chaucer's 'Good Women' Dared Not Say

Author / Editor
Aloni, Gila.

Title
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.