Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale', 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', and the English Romance Tradition

Author / Editor
Folks, Cathalin Buhrmann.

Title
Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale', 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', and the English Romance Tradition

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 50 (1990): 2062A.

Description
Neither WBT nor "Gawain" presents straightforward satire on late-fourteenth-century English romance. At once ironic and idealistic, the two works provide a human redefinition of the genre as exemplified in contemporary chivalric writing.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.