The Fate of the Wife of Bath's 'Bad Husbands'

Author / Editor
Palomo, Dolores.

Title
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.