The Host, the "Man of Law's Tale," and the Fantasy of the Foreign Wife

Author / Editor
Shutters, Lynn.

Title
The Host, the "Man of Law's Tale," and the Fantasy of the Foreign Wife

Published
Chaucer Review 55, no. 4 (2020): 397-421.

Description
Discusses the wives of CT, and, in particular, Constance in MLT, suggesting that "unruly" wives are generally English and that virtuous ones are continental. Traces how Chaucer's use of these good wives offers space for him to rethink England, the Continent, and good wives.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale
Canterbury Tales--General