The Oral Life of the Written Ballad of the 'Wanton Wife of Bath'

Author / Editor
Bowden, Betsy.

Title
The Oral Life of the Written Ballad of the 'Wanton Wife of Bath'

Published
North Carolina Folklore Journal 35 (1988): 40-77.

Description
Examines traditions and analogues of the ballad "The Wanton Wife of Bath," a thirteenth-century Old French fabliau analogue, and post-Chaucerian versions. Texts included for various versions.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.