A Note on Chaucer's Prioress and Her Literary Kinship with the Wife of Bath

Author / Editor
Wilcockson, Colin.

Title
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.