Moments of Silence, Acts of Speech : Uncovering the Incest Motif in the Man of Law's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Kisor, Yvette.
Moments of Silence, Acts of Speech : Uncovering the Incest Motif in the Man of Law's Tale
- Published
- Chaucer Review 40 (2005): 141-62
- Description
- Unlike the character in the sources and analogues, Custance in MLT forcefully confronts her father's authority at times. This confrontation and her willingness to disclose her past inscribe a "lesser version of the incest motif that has supposedly been excised from the tale."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.