The Worthy Wife and the Virtuous Knight: Survival of the Wittiest
- Author / Editor
- Leslie, Nancy T.
The Worthy Wife and the Virtuous Knight: Survival of the Wittiest
- Published
- Chaucerian Shakespear (Ann Arbor: Michigan Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 1983), pp. 25-41.
- Description
- The Wife of Bath and Falstaff are superb "actors" who use rhetorical tools to triumph on their "stages," citing Scripture, twisting logic, and spouting proverbs for their own purposes.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucerian Shakespeare.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.