An Analogue to the 'Marital Dilemma' in the 'Wife of Bath's Tale'

Author / Editor
Green, Richard Firth.

Title
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.