Another Biblical Echo in the Wife of Bath's Prologue?
- Author / Editor
- Cook, Robert.
Another Biblical Echo in the Wife of Bath's Prologue?
- Published
- English Studies 59 (1978): 390-94.
- Description
- The reference in WBT to the husband who "pissed on a wal" recalls similar phrases in an oath of King David (1 Kings 25:22, 34). The Biblical allusion is ironic, occurring in the context of the story of Abigail, a model of forebearance in dealing with an unruly husband and quite the opposite of Dame Alice.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.