An Analogue to the 'Marital Dilemma' in the 'Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Green, Richard Firth.
An Analogue to the 'Marital Dilemma' in the 'Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Published
- English Language Notes 28:4 (1991): 9-12.
- Description
- Discusses similarities between Chaucer's WBT and the French farce "Les deux maris et leurs deux femmes" and suggests that the loathly lady's riddle at the end of WBT "might be drawing on a less recherche tradition than that of Latin rhetoric."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.