The Wife of Bath's Costumes: Reading the Subtexts

Author / Editor
Hodges, Laura (F.)

Title
The Wife of Bath's Costumes: Reading the Subtexts

Published
Chaucer Review 27 (1993): 359-76.

Description
Analyses the Wife's Sunday costume and her traveling outfit from realistic and symbolic perspectives. Her dress reveals her economic and social class as well as her "allegoric nature"--fair outside and foul inside.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.