The Wife of Bath's Old Wives' Tale
- Author / Editor
- Disbrow, Sarah.
The Wife of Bath's Old Wives' Tale
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 8 (1986): 59-71.
- Description
- Arthurian romance in Chaucer's WBT becomes analogous to "old wives' tales" denounced by Scripture, Augustine and other patristic writers, and ParsT. The Wife's telling such a romance undermines her claim to be a notable preacher and associates her with figures like the Foolish Woman of Proverbs.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.