'To Late for to Crie': Female Desire, Fabliau Politics, and Classical Legend in Chaucer's Reeve's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Sidhu, Nicole Nolan.
'To Late for to Crie': Female Desire, Fabliau Politics, and Classical Legend in Chaucer's Reeve's Tale
- Published
- Exemplaria 21 (2009): 3-23.
- Description
- RvT "confronts the paradoxical status of women's desire" in medieval Christian and feudal systems. The Tale's "significant divergences from the fabliau tradition" and several resemblances to the story of Theseus and Ariadne help undercut KnT; its obscenity is a "critique of aristocratic culture."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale.
- Knight and His Tale