Alys as Allegory: The Ambivalent Heretic

Author / Editor
Martin, Carol A. N.

Title
Alys as Allegory: The Ambivalent Heretic

Published
Comitatus 21 (1990: 52-71.

Description
Treats WBP, hermeneutics, and Chaucer and Wycliffism. Investigating whether and why Chaucer might have given Wycliffite traits to the Wife of Bath, Martin argues that he did in order to explore both faults and virtues of literal-minded interpretation of vernacular texts.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.