The Wife of Bath's Deafness and Antifeminist Tradition

Author / Editor
Hamaguchi, Keiko.

Title
The Wife of Bath's Deafness and Antifeminist Tradition

Published
Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Sachiho Tanaka. (Tokyo: Kirihara Shoten, 1988), pp. 107-21.

Description
Explores why Chaucer made the Wife of Bath an ideal wife after she became physically "somdel deef," tracing the meaning and effect of "deef" in the context of her revolt against the antifeminist tradition. In Japanese.

Alternative Title
Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Sachiho Tanaka.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.