Chaucer’s Jailer’s Daughter: Character and Source in "The Two Noble Kinsmen."

Author / Editor
Snell, Megan.

Title
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