The Wife of Bath's Confessions and the Miller's True Story

Author / Editor
Long, Charles.

Title
The Wife of Bath's Confessions and the Miller's True Story

Published
Interpretations 8 (1976): 54-66.

Description
Alisoun, the Wife of Bath, confesses certain details that parallel incidents in the Miller's story about young Alisoun. If the two Alisouns are one, then Old John is the Reeve, the Wife's fourth husband; and he suffers in embarrassed silence while the Wife insists that he is dead and buried.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Reeve and His Tale.