The Friar's Tale and the Wife of Bath's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Carole K.,Marion F. Egge, and Penn R. Szittya.
The Friar's Tale and the Wife of Bath's Tale
- Published
- PMLA 91 (1976): 291-93.
- Description
- A response by Browne and Egge to Szittya's "The Green Man as Loathly Lady," and Szittya's reply.
- To Brown and Egge WBT and FrT represent respectively the essences of goodness and evil: the knight becomes increasingly moral, the somonour increasingly immoral. Szittya replies that the point is not different morals but different results produced in similar situations for parodic effect.
- Contributor
- Egge, Marion F.
- Szittya, Penn R.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Friar and His Tale.