Dame Alice and the Nobility of Pleasure

Author / Editor
Gallacher, Patrick J.

Title
Dame Alice and the Nobility of Pleasure

Published
Viator 13 (1982): 275-93.

Description
The idea that virtue is perfect only when it is enjoyable is corrected in WBT with the discourse on gentilesse. The three main concepts regarding pleasure discussed in WBT are the equation of pleasure with perfection, the coexistence of pleasure and pain, and the results of bodily pleasure.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.