'A Coverchief or a Calle': The Ultimate End of the Wife of Bath's Search for Sovereignty
- Author / Editor
- Ireland, Colin A.
'A Coverchief or a Calle': The Ultimate End of the Wife of Bath's Search for Sovereignty
- Published
- Neophilologus 75 (1991): 150-59.
- Description
- Chaucer's awareness of analogues to WBT and its theme of sovereignty may be indicated by his use of the word "calle," 'head-dress' (WBT 1018), an early borrowing of the Irish "caille," 'veil,' a derivation of which came to mean "old woman" as well as "hag, witch."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.