The Wife of Bath and Women's Power
- Author / Editor
- Amsler, Mark.
The Wife of Bath and Women's Power
- Published
- Assays 4 (1986): 67-83.
- Description
- The Wife of Bath's performance constitutes a bourgeois, female countercommentary by a literate property owner to the dominant male aristocratic and ecclesiastical conceptions of marriage, sex, learning, and economic power in the later Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.