Eglentyne's Mary/Widow: Reconsidering the Anti-Semitism of The Prioress's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Elliott, Winter S.
Eglentyne's Mary/Widow: Reconsidering the Anti-Semitism of The Prioress's Tale
- Published
- Kathleen A. Bishop,ed. "The Canterbury Tales" Revisited--21st Century Interpretations (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008), pp. 110-26.
- Description
- The Prioress aligns herself with the widow in her Tale and with the Virgin Mary. Although the clergeon is like Christ in his challenge to Jewish tradition, PrT is concerned with female power as well as with cultural prejudice.
- Alternative Title
- "Canterbury Tales" Revisited-21st Century Interpretations.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale