Kill Me, Save Me, Let Me Go: Custance, Virginia, Emelye

Author / Editor
Steel, Karl.

Title
Kill Me, Save Me, Let Me Go: Custance, Virginia, Emelye

Published
Myra Seaman, Eileen A. Joy, and Nicola Masciandaro, eds. Dark Chaucer: An Assortment (Brooklyn, N. Y.: Punctum Books, 2012), pp. 151-60.

Description
Explores Custance, Virginia, and Emelye as women who recognize they are characters in someone else's narratives. Also suggests that Chaucer was similarly constrained by his sources, leaving him too without freedom to be his own self.

Alternative Title
Dark Chaucer: An Assortment.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale
Physician and His Tale
Knight and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations