'He Nedes Moste Hire Wedde': The Forced Marriage in the 'Wife of Bath's Tale' and Its Middle English Analogues
- Author / Editor
- Glasser, Marc.
'He Nedes Moste Hire Wedde': The Forced Marriage in the 'Wife of Bath's Tale' and Its Middle English Analogues
- Published
- Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 85:2 (1984): 239-41.
- Description
- Compares the theme of forced marriage in WBT, "The Marriage of Sir Gawaine," "The Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell," and Gower's "Tale of Florent." While all the works concern forced marriages, Chaucer's knight undergoes "greater coercion," and he is the only victim to complain.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.