Authorship, Authority, and the Polemics of Rachel Speght and the Wife of Bath
- Author / Editor
- Moon, Hi Kyung.
Authorship, Authority, and the Polemics of Rachel Speght and the Wife of Bath
- Published
- Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 14 (2006): 431-46.
- Description
- Compares and contrasts the strategies and outspoken polemics of WBP with those of Speght's "A Mouzell for Melastomus" (1617). Speght exposes antagonist Joseph Swetnam in ways similar to those used by Chaucer to expose the Wife.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale