Repetition and Design in the 'Wife of Bath's Tale'

Author / Editor
Fleming, Martha (H.)

Title
Repetition and Design in the 'Wife of Bath's Tale'

Published
Julian N. Wasserman and Robert J. Blanch, eds. Chaucer in the Eighties (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986), pp. 151-61.

Description
Prologues are simply framing devices. WBT is not a device to explicate the Wife's character; it amplifies and creates variations on a theme in KnT.

Alternative Title
Chaucer in the Eighties.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Knight and His Tale.