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- Title
WOMEN AND MONEY IN THE MILLER'S TALE AND THE REEVE'S TALE.
- Authors
Carroll, Virginia Schaefer
- Abstract
The article focuses on the position of women and money on "The Miller's Tale" and "The Reeve's Tale," the second and third of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales." It highlights the debate of maistrie in marriage and the equality of men and women in several perspectives. It also notes the shift of attention by scholars to the commercial experience of Chaucer that has playfully place the struggle into a familiar view for the pilgrims and the medieval audience. It adds that the tales deliberately imposes commercial language as an artistic antifeminist burlesque rendition.
- Subjects
WOMEN in literature; CHAUCER, Geoffrey, d. 1400; MONEY in literature; MARRIAGE; SCHOLARS; EQUALITY; MEDIEVAL literature; CANTERBURY Tales: The Miller's Tale; CANTERBURY Tales: The Reeve's Tale
- Publication
Medieval Perspectives, 1988, Vol 3, Issue 1, p76
- ISSN
1057-5367
- Publication type
Article