Falstaff, the Wife of Bath, and the Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
- Author / Editor
- Finke, Laurie A.
Falstaff, the Wife of Bath, and the Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
- Published
- Chaucerian Shakespeare (Ann Arbor: Michigan Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 1983), pp. 7-24.
- Description
- Falstaff and the Wife of Bath "use remarkably similar grammatical and syntactical strategies to manipulate language," to create "smokescreens" that cover their "nakedness," and "to try to reshape the world in their own image."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucerian Shakespeare.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.