A Note on Chaucer's Prioress and Her Literary Kinship with the Wife of Bath
- Author / Editor
- Wilcockson, Colin.
A Note on Chaucer's Prioress and Her Literary Kinship with the Wife of Bath
- Published
- Medium Aevum 61 (1992): 92-96.
- Description
- Since Chaucer uses the same passage in the Roman de la Rose as a source for the Prioress and the Wife of Bath, these two characters "are bonded in ironic literary sisterhood."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.