The Non-Comic, Non-Tragic Wife: Chaucer's Dame Alys as Sociopath

Author / Editor
Sands, Donald B.

Title
The Non-Comic, Non-Tragic Wife: Chaucer's Dame Alys as Sociopath

Published
Chaucer Review 12 (1978): 171-82.

Description
The Wife of Bath is neither a comic figure as Donaldson and others see her, nor a tragic figure as several other critics see her. Instead she is, as Beryl Rowland suggests, a neurotic and a misfit.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.