The Green Yeoman as Loathly Lady: The Friar's Parody of the Wife of Bath's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Szittya, Penn R.
The Green Yeoman as Loathly Lady: The Friar's Parody of the Wife of Bath's Tale
- Published
- PMLA 90 (1975): 386-94.
- Description
- Verbal echoes and character parallels such as the Wife's hag and the Friar's yeoman/fiend indicate that the Friar's purpose is parody. He uses his theme of moral "maistrie" to debunk the Wife's marital "maistrie." His view of human nature is cynical and pessimistic; hers is wishful and romantic.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Friar and His Tale.