Dryden's Version of the 'Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Mason, Tom.
Dryden's Version of the 'Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Published
- Cambridge Quarterly 6 (1975): 240-56.
- Description
- Reads Dryden's version of WBT (from his "Fables") and his comments on the tale as reflections of his sensitivity to Chaucer's wit, humor, "genial irony," "gentle sarcasm," and especially his clever juxtapositions--the "imaginative setting of one thought or situation against another." Dryden's perspective can help us to better appreciate Chaucer's art and his "Cervantic gravity," a phrase Scott applied to Dryden himself.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
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