Kill Me, Save Me, Let Me Go: Custance, Virginia, Emelye
- Author / Editor
- Steel, Karl.
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