'Gentilesse' in Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Muriel.
'Gentilesse' in Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale
- Published
- Michelle Sauer, ed. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature (Minot, N.D.: Minot State University, 2003), pp. 82-89.
- Description
- Brown approaches the loathly lady's sermon on "gentillesse" as political allegory, emphasizing "the transforming power of relinquishing control over those who work, the third estate."
- Alternative Title
- Proceedings of the 11th Annual Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.