The Fate of the Wife of Bath's 'Bad Husbands'
- Author / Editor
- Palomo, Dolores.
The Fate of the Wife of Bath's 'Bad Husbands'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 9 (1975): 303-19.
- Description
- By subtle allusions and a skillful balance of opposites, Chaucer reveals that the Wife of Bath conspired with Jankyn to kill her fourth husband, caused Jankyn's death by betraying him to her friends, and became a garish, cynical old woman incapable of love and at once comic and tragic.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.