Old French 'Bacon' and the Wife of Bath
- Author / Editor
- Rex, Richard.
Old French 'Bacon' and the Wife of Bath
- Published
- Massachusetts Studies in English 10 (1985): 132-37.
- Description
- Explicating WBP 418, Rex rejects Skeats's interpretation ("the common food of rustics") and Hoffman's ("harmony in marriage") and decides, on the basis of Old and Middle French slang meanings attested to in riddles and fabliaux, that the obscene meanings of "bacon" best convey Alison's contemptuous and satirical tone toward her old husbands.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.