'Al was this land fulfild of fayerye': The Thematic Employment of Force, Willfulness, and Legal Conventions in Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Blanch, Robert J.
'Al was this land fulfild of fayerye': The Thematic Employment of Force, Willfulness, and Legal Conventions in Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Published
- Studia Neophilologica 57 (1985): 41-51.
- Description
- The Wife's portrayal of the rape, the judgment, and punishment of the knight reflect wish fulfillment, legal anachronism, and the inversion of the natural order of legitimate authority, though the tale ends in "true freedom and order."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.