Thisbe Out of Context: Chaucer's Female Readers and the Findern Manuscript
- Author / Editor
- Doyle, Kara A.
Thisbe Out of Context: Chaucer's Female Readers and the Findern Manuscript
- Published
- Chaucer Review 40 (2006): 231-61.
- Description
- Excerpted from Chaucer's LGW and thus lacking a narrative frame, the Legend of Thisbe in the Findern manuscript leaves room for the assumption that the manuscript's female readers saw Thisbe "as simply a victim." The excerpt's codicological context, however, suggests that its readers were well attuned to the commentaries on "the discourses of 'fin' amors' and medieval misogyny" in which LGW participates.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.