Alisoun and the Saved Harlots: A Cozening of Our Expectation

Author / Editor
Delasanta, Rodney [K.]

Title
Alisoun and the Saved Harlots: A Cozening of Our Expectation

Published
Chaucer Review 12 (1978): 218-35.

Description
D. W. Robertson has already demonstrated the relationship between the Samaritan Woman (Matt. 4:4) and the Wife of Bath. But the similarities are even deeper, extending to an ironic typology of the harlot saved, including Mary Magdalene.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.