Chaucer's Women: Commitment and Submission

Author / Editor
Reed, Gail H.

Title
Chaucer's Women: Commitment and Submission

Published
DAI 35.07 (1974): 4215A.

Description
Argues that "in Chaucer's poetry women are consistently portrayed as seeking out a niche in the social (or religious) hierarchy which will permit them to serve in the subordinate position St. Paul insists they were intended to fill." Discusses all of Chaucer's major poems.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism