Gentle Men, 'Lufly' and 'Loothly' Ladies, 'Aghlich Maysters': Characterization in 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'
- Author / Editor
- Folks, Cathalin Buhrmann.
Gentle Men, 'Lufly' and 'Loothly' Ladies, 'Aghlich Maysters': Characterization in 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'
- Published
- Eilean Ni Cuilleanain and J.D. Pheifer, eds. Noble and Joyous Histories: English Romances, 1375-1650 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1993), pp. 59-85.
- Description
- The "Gawain" poet and Chaucer (through the mediating Wife of Bath) modify conventional details of character, description, and action, producing protagonists who develop or who come to self-awareness in ways more complicated than elsewhere in the tradition of English romance.
- Alternative Title
- Noble and Joyous Histories: English Romances, 1375-1650.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.