Chaucer's Vows and How They Break : Transgression in The Manciple's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Jost, Jean E.
Chaucer's Vows and How They Break : Transgression in The Manciple's Tale
- Published
- Albrecht Classen, ed. Discourses on Love, Marriage, and Transgression in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004), pp. 267-87.
- Series
- Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, no. 278.
- Description
- Explores vows and vow-breaking in CT, arguing that ManT brings to tragic crescendo a concern with the transgression of marital vows and presents consequences as horrific as any in Greek drama.
- Contributor
- Classen, Albrecht, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Discourses on Love, Marriage, and Transgression in Medieval and Early Modern Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manciple and His Tale.
- Canterbury Tales--General.