Why Chaucer's Wife Is from Bath

Author / Editor
Weissman, Hope Phyllis.

Title
Why Chaucer's Wife Is from Bath

Published
Chaucer Review 15 (1980): 11-36.

Description
Literary tradition and iconography connect "bath" to prostitution, also suggested by the Wife's living outside the former patriarchal city. These symbolize her prostitution in marriage, thwarting the system, her enrichment, and ultimately her own martyred age.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.