Graduation Year
2019
Date of Submission
4-2019
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Literature
Second Department
Late Antique-Medieval Studies
Reader 1
Ellen Rentz
Abstract
This paper explores the extent to which the female characters in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales exercise any degree of narrative agency. Using both literary and historical approaches, this paper specifically discusses the cases of three of Chaucer’s women: Virginia, Griselda, and the Wife of Bath.
Recommended Citation
Garcia, Mariechristine, "Explorations of Women's Narrative Agency in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales" (2019). CMC Senior Theses. 2155.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2155
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
