Chaucer's Treatment of Outlawry in "Wife of Bath's Tale" and "Knight's Tale."

Author / Editor
Gonzalez, Carolyn.

Title
Chaucer's Treatment of Outlawry in "Wife of Bath's Tale" and "Knight's Tale."

Published
Anglo Saxonica 18.1 (2020): 1-9.

Description
Outlines the "historical background on outlawry as a legal practice," and uses this background to explore how the depictions of outlaws in WBT and KnT unveil "chivalry's ideological blemishes" by showing how outlawry displaces a character's connections with others and compels them to "forge new identities."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Knight and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale