'Who peyntede the leon, tel me who?': Rhetorical and Didactic Roles Played by an Aesopic Fable in the Wife of Bath's Prologue

Author / Editor
Malvern, Marjorie M.

Title
'Who peyntede the leon, tel me who?': Rhetorical and Didactic Roles Played by an Aesopic Fable in the Wife of Bath's Prologue

Published
Studies in Philology 80 (1983): 238-52.

Description
The Wife of Bath's allusion to the fable of "A Lion and a Man" indicates the "sentence" unifying her Prologue into cogent satire and emphasizes the aim of her rhetorical devices.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.