Chaucer’s Jailer’s Daughter: Character and Source in "The Two Noble Kinsmen."
- Author / Editor
- Snell, Megan.
Chaucer’s Jailer’s Daughter: Character and Source in "The Two Noble Kinsmen."
- Published
- Shakespeare Quarterly 69.1 (2018): 35-56.
- Description
- Examines how the Jailer's Daughter of Shakespeare and Fletcher's play, a character not found in KnT, reflects a complex form of influence derived not only from KnT, but from MilT and RvT as well. Considers water imagery and liquidity, and "madness, secular village life, comic cruelty, and erotic, feminine desire" as manifestations of how the Daughter "quits" the play, as Chaucer’s fabliaux quit his romance.
- Alternative Title
- Shakespeare Quarterly 69 (2018)
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Knight and His Tale
Miller and His Tale
Reeve and His Tale