Chaucer's Working Wyf: The Unraveling of a Yarn-Spinner
- Author / Editor
- Rowland, Beryl.
Chaucer's Working Wyf: The Unraveling of a Yarn-Spinner
- Published
- Julian N. Wasserman and Robert J. Blanch, eds. Chaucer in the Eighties (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986), pp. 137-49.
- Description
- Interpretations of the Wife of Bath through socioeconomic readings work less well than symbolic-aesthetic readings. The Wife's weaving reveals her less a businesswoman than an archetypal woman such as Eve or Mary, both portrayed as weavers of life.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer in the Eighties.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.