Nayled to the wow
Tom Shippey, 7 January 1993
The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer
by Derek Pearsall.
Blackwell, 365 pp., £19.95, September 1992,1 55786 205 2 Show More
by Derek Pearsall.
Blackwell, 365 pp., £19.95, September 1992,
A Wyf ther was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck
edited by Juliette Dor.
University of Liège, 300 pp., June 1992,2 87233 004 6 Show More
edited by Juliette Dor.
University of Liège, 300 pp., June 1992,
Hochon’s Arrow: The Social Imagination of 14th-Century Texts
by Paul Strohm.
Princeton, 205 pp., £27.50, November 1992,0 691 06880 1 Show More
by Paul Strohm.
Princeton, 205 pp., £27.50, November 1992,
“... has to conclude that he is becoming more and more of a failure. The collection of essays edited by Juliette Dor, A Wyf ther was, has space for plenty of discussions of ‘Chaucer and Feminism’, ‘Sex and Gender in Chaucer’s Poetry’, ‘Feminist Re-Enactments’ and ‘Quarrels, Rivals and Rape’, but not much for all-male audiences or weary humour ... ”
