Some Uses of the Bible and Biblical Authority in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale

Author / Editor
Mendelson, Anne.

Title
Some Uses of the Bible and Biblical Authority in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 39 (1978): 2295A.

Description
The incongruity of the method of theological "quaestiones" (humble) in WBP with the Wife's aggressive, arbitrary approach and some of her orthodox assertions create the comic effect. WBT exhibits a transformation: the intellectual authority of the disputator and and the social authority of the superior sex are united in the tale's heroine.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.