The Wife of Bath's Confessions and the Miller's True Story
- Author / Editor
- Long, Charles.
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.