A Head for a Head: A Testamental Template for 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Arthur, Ross G.
A Head for a Head: A Testamental Template for 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Published
- Florilegium 6 (1984): 178-94.
- Description
- The historical development of an Old Testament law can be applied to "Sir Gawain" and WBT. WBT, which begins with a "lawless, violent rape and ends with the free gift of fairness and fidelity, progresses by the efficiency of a statute (cf. OT 'eye for an eye' justice) of a 'head for a head'."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.