'Lat the Womman Telle Hire Tale': A Reading of the 'Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Tigges, Wim.
'Lat the Womman Telle Hire Tale': A Reading of the 'Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Published
- English Studies 73 (1992): 97-103.
- Description
- By asking her question, the queen in WBT forces the knight to think about what he has done and to realize that what women definitely do not want is to be raped. To educate the knight (and the audience?) is more important than simply to execute him.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.