Classroom PSA: Values, Law, and Ethics in "The Reeve’s Tale."

Author / Editor
Houlik-Ritchey, Emily.

Title
Classroom PSA: Values, Law, and Ethics in "The Reeve’s Tale."

Published
Allison Gulley, ed. Teaching Rape in the Medieval Literature Classroom: Approaches to Difficult Texts (Amsterdam: Arc Humanities, 2018), pp. 91-112.

Description
Identifies contradictions and complications in legal and ethical understandings of rape, and describes how issues of consent and culpability can be used productively in classroom discussion of RvT to help students understand their own values as well as those that inhere in the text.

Alternative Title
Teaching Rape in the Medieval Literature Classroom

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale