The Wife of Bath, the Lion, and the Critics
- Author / Editor
- Hagen, Susan K.
The Wife of Bath, the Lion, and the Critics
- Published
- Constance H. Berman, Charles W. Connell, and Judith Rice Rothschild, eds. The Worlds of Medieval Women. (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 1985), pp. 130-38.
- Description
- From the perspective of feminist criticism Hagen opposes the Kittredge "Marriage Group," insisting that what the Wife implies in "who peyntede the leon" applies to critics' versions as well as to the clerks' versions of the Wife's behavior.
- Alternative Title
- The Worlds of Medieval Women.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.