Trade as Pudendum: Chaucer's Wife of Bath
- Author / Editor
- Justman, Stewart.
Trade as Pudendum: Chaucer's Wife of Bath
- Published
- Chaucer Review 28 (1994): 344-52.
- Description
- Although Chaucer does not satirize the three estates in CT (there is no high nobility; clerical offenders do not reflect on the church; the peasantry does not speak), he does attack the middle class and its values through the Wife of Bath, who represents the "town" and its illicit values.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.