Chaucer's Dependence on Sermon Structure in the Wife of Bath's 'Prologue' and 'Tale'

Author / Editor
Sanders, Barry.

Title
Chaucer's Dependence on Sermon Structure in the Wife of Bath's 'Prologue' and 'Tale'

Published
Studies in Medieval Culture 4 (1974): 437-45.

Description
WBP/WBT are best read as one woman's satire of both preachers and their anti-feminist propaganda. Attacking antifeminism in medieval preaching, she uses the structure of the medieval sermon.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.