Shakespeare's 'Taming of the Shrew' and Chaucer's Wife of Bath: The Struggle for Marital Mastery
- Author / Editor
- Gussenhoven, Sr. Francis, RSHM.
Shakespeare's 'Taming of the Shrew' and Chaucer's Wife of Bath: The Struggle for Marital Mastery
- Published
- Chaucerian Shakespeare (Ann Arbor: Michigan Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 1983), pp. 69-79.
- Description
- Both Petruchio and the Wife of Bath see their spouses as "shrewish." Like Chaucer, Shakespeare employs images of taming and teaching, clothes, hats, and kisses to "reinforce the theme of mastery in marriage."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucerian Shakespeare.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.