'He Nedes Moste Hire Wedde': The Forced Marriage in the 'Wife of Bath's Tale' and Its Middle English Analogues

Author / Editor
Glasser, Marc.

Title
'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.