Chaucer's Sely Widows
- Author / Editor
- Amtower, Laurel.
Chaucer's Sely Widows
- Published
- Laurel Amtower and Dorothea Kehler, eds. The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England: Her Life and Representation (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2003), pp. 119-32.
- Description
- Surveys Chaucer's treatments of widows, which reveal an "awareness of their excluded social status and how it affects their assertions as individuals." Focuses on Dido and Cleopatra of LGW, the Wife of Bath, and, especially, Criseyde.
- In TC, Chaucer gives Criseyde an "elaborate subjectivity," although later tradition returns her to her earlier "reductionism or gendered willfulness."
- Alternative Title
- Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England: Her Life and Representation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Legend of Good Women.