Falstaff, the Wife of Bath, and the Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric

Author / Editor
Finke, Laurie A.

Title
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.