The Wife of Bath and the Revelour: Power Struggles and Failure in a Marriage of Peers
- Author / Editor
- Bott, Robin L.
The Wife of Bath and the Revelour: Power Struggles and Failure in a Marriage of Peers
- Published
- Medieval Perspectives 6 (1991): 154-61.
- Description
- When describing her fourth husband, the Wife is silent on topics freely discussed with respect to her other husbands (particularly money, age, and temperment); this suggests the equality of the two in these areas. Their marriage fails because the power struggles of equals are unresolvable.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.