Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Preface Introduction by S. Elizabeth Passmore and Susan Carter Through the Counsel of a Lady: The Irish and English Loathly Lady Tales and the "Mirrors for Princes' Genre" by S. Elizabeth Passmore The Politics of Strengthe and Vois in Gower's Loathly Lady Tale by R. F. Yeager Sovereignty through the Lady: "The Wife of Bath's Tale" and the Queenship of Anne of Bohemia by Elizabeth M. Biebel-Stanley A Hymenation of Hags by Susan Carter Folklore and Powerful Women in Gower's "Tale of Florent" by Russell A. Peck Controlling the Loathly Lady, or What Really Frees Dame Ragnelle by Paul Gaffney "The Marriage of Sir Gawain": Piecing the Fragments Together by Stephanie Hollis A Jungian Approach to the Ballad "King Henry" by Mary Edwards Shaner Repainting the Lion: "The Wife of Bath's Tale" and a Traditional British Ballad by Lynn M. Wollstadt Why Dame Ragnell Had to Die: Feminine Usurpation of Male Authority in "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell" by Mary Leech Brains or Beauty: Limited Sovereignty in the Loathly Lady Tales "The Wife of Bath's Tale," "Thomas of Erceldoune," and "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle" by Ellen M. Caldwell

About the Author

S. Elizabeth Passmore is Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana, and specializes in Chaucer, Ricardian Literature, and the history of the English language. Susan Carter is a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland and contributes to the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, the Art of Supervision and the supervision seminar series within the Centre for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.