Conflict and Relationship, Sovereignty and Survival: Parables of Power in the 'Wife of Bath's Prologue'
- Author / Editor
- Gottfried, Barbara.
Conflict and Relationship, Sovereignty and Survival: Parables of Power in the 'Wife of Bath's Prologue'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 19 (1985): 202-24.
- Description
- The energy of WBP derives from the Wife's "awareness of the tension between her centrality as speaker, and her experiential understanding of her marginality as female," since she voices her woman's feelings toward an overwhelming male audience with male expectations and values.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.