Who Peyntede the Leon?: The Olde Wyf Confronts the Wife of Bath and Criseyde
- Author / Editor
- Rosenfeld, Nancy.
Who Peyntede the Leon?: The Olde Wyf Confronts the Wife of Bath and Criseyde
- Published
- Atenea (Puerto Rico) 23.1 (2003): 69-83.
- Description
- Parallels between Criseyde and the women of WBPT "interrogate the following issues: equality between the sexes, possessions (ownership), possession (jealousy), and appearance." Rosenfeld reads the loathly lady as a "synthesis" of the Wife of Bath and Criseyde and as an expression of the ideal that the separation between appearance and reality can be transcended.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Troilus and Criseyde