'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.
'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.