Notes on Experience, Authority, and Desire in the Wife of Bath's Recital
- Author / Editor
- Delany, Sheila.
Notes on Experience, Authority, and Desire in the Wife of Bath's Recital
- Published
- Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts 15 (1987): 27-35.
- Description
- By omitting details about the Wife's experiences of work and travel, Chaucer deliberately reduces her complexity. His failure to express her social or psychological reality results from his own experience and desires mediated by gender, social position, religious tendency, and choice of authorities. The tale itself may be the fantasy of the Wife, or of the courtier poet personally familiar with rape and betrayal.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.