The Wife of Bath's Fourth and Fifth Husbands and Her Ideal Sixth: The Growth of Marital Philosophy
- Author / Editor
- Burton, T. L.
The Wife of Bath's Fourth and Fifth Husbands and Her Ideal Sixth: The Growth of Marital Philosophy
- Published
- Chaucer Review 13 (1978): 34-50.
- Description
- Dame Alice embodies the "bossy woman" who wishes to be mastered in bed, demands freedom outside it, but only finds her ideal in fantasy. Her fourth husband failed to master her in bed; the fifth refused her freedom outside it; only the knight in WBT offers the perfect combination.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.