Alison of Bath Accused of Murder: Case Dismissed

Author / Editor
Crane, Susan.

Title
Alison of Bath Accused of Murder: Case Dismissed

Published
English Language Notes 25:3 (1988): 10-15.

Description
No case can be made that the Wife of Bath murdered her fourth husband. Such claims are made only by readers who invent for her an extratextual history and psychology or who believe that she "merely fulfills antifeminist expectations rather than reassessing the tradition."

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.