'Vanysshed Was This Daunce, He Nyste Where': Alisoun's Absence in 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Lindley, Arthur.
'Vanysshed Was This Daunce, He Nyste Where': Alisoun's Absence in 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale'
- Published
- ELH 59 (1992): 1-21.
- Description
- Alisoun presents a puzzle without a key because she is unreal,created out of an imaginary book derived from real male clerical authorities but eventually destroyed. Alisoun and her self-projection--the hag-bride--represent not women who can answer questions but impalpable projections of masculine anxieties, essentially evil nonbeings.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.