Seductive Violence and Three Chaucerian Women.(Critical Essay) From: College Literature | Date: March 22, 2001| Author: O'Brien, Timothy D. | COPYRIGHT 2001 West Chester University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The only fully portrayed females on the pilgrimage to Canterbury, the Wife of Bath and the Prioress make a curious pair, which becomes an even more curious trio when we add the wife in the Shipman's Tale, whose sexual economics and position in a tale originally intended for the Wife of Bath connect her with Alison, and whose position in the tale just before that of the Prioress links her, strangely at first, with the more devout of these two female pilgrims. More than a matter of r...

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