The Non-Comic, Non-Tragic Wife: Chaucer's Dame Alys as Sociopath
- Author / Editor
- Sands, Donald B.
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.