Laying Siege to Female Power: Theseus the Conqueror and Hippolita the 'Asseged' in Chaucer's 'The Knight's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Pearman, Tory Vandeventer.
Laying Siege to Female Power: Theseus the Conqueror and Hippolita the 'Asseged' in Chaucer's 'The Knight's Tale'
- Published
- Essays in Medieval Studies 23 (2006): 31-40.
- Description
- The language used to describe Hippolyta in KnT undermines the praise of Theseus and exposes "the dramatic irony in the Knight's perception of Theseus's military exploits and subsequent exchange of ethnic women."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.