Rape and Desire in 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Richman, Gerald.
Rape and Desire in 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Published
- Studia Neophilologica 61 (1989): 161-65.
- Description
- The rapist-knight's plea to "Tak al my good and let my body go" (WBT 3.1061) highlights his role reversal not only with the raped maiden but also with women bound to legalized rape by the concept of the "marriage debt." Richman suggests that the punishment of the knight in WBT parallels that of Chaucer in LGW.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Legend of Good Women.