A Comment on 'Tattle's Well's Faire'

Author / Editor
Waller, Martha S.

Title
A Comment on 'Tattle's Well's Faire'

Published
College English 47 (1985): 873-74.

Description
Woman was made from Adam's rib (rather than his head or foot) so that she would be a fellow to man. This idea is found in Chaucer's ParsT and earlier in Aquinas's "Summa Theologica," pt. 1, chap. 92.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.