Chaucer's Wife of Bath and Her Ten Pound Coverchief
- Author / Editor
- Whitaker, Elaine E.
Chaucer's Wife of Bath and Her Ten Pound Coverchief
- Published
- Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 15:2 (1989): 26-36.
- Description
- Coverchiefs, while sometimes a sign of mourning, are more often read as a devilish device to "blind men's sight," as Robert Mannyng suggests. The Wife's coverchiefs serve as one of numerous signs that "her life...remains in theological disarray."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.