Mate or Mother: Positioning Criseyde Among Chaucer's Widows

Author / Editor
Jacobs, Kathryn.

Title
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.