Mate or Mother: Positioning Criseyde Among Chaucer's Widows
- Author / Editor
- Jacobs, Kathryn.
Mate or Mother: Positioning Criseyde Among Chaucer's Widows
- Published
- Cindy L. Vitto and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. New Perspectives on Criseyde (Fairview, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2004), pp. 59-74.
- Description
- Chaucer resists the prevailing "lusty widow" stereotype in his depictions of the Wife of Bath and Criseyde, paving the way for more positive images of widows on the Renaissance stage.
- Alternative Title
- New Perspectives on Criseyde.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.