Inquisityf of Goddes Pryvetee and a Wyf: Curiositas in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Smilie, Ethan Kobus.
Inquisityf of Goddes Pryvetee and a Wyf: Curiositas in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- DAI A73.10 (2013): n.p.
- Description
- Examines the vice of curiosity, arguing that Chaucer both expands its application from the realm of the intellectual to the realm of the physical, and suggests that poetry may be a cause and a remedy for the desire to inquire into private matters. Discusses MilT, RvT, WBPT, FrT, SumT, and ClT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale
- Reeve and His Tale
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Friar and His Tale
- Summoner and His Tale
- Clerk and His Tale