The 'Double Sorwe' of the Wife of Bath: Chaucer and the Misogynist Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Wurtele, Douglas (J.)
The 'Double Sorwe' of the Wife of Bath: Chaucer and the Misogynist Tradition
- Published
- Florilegium 11 (1992): 179-205.
- Description
- The Wife's pain and anxiety in regard to clerical pronouncements on the sinfulness of carnal pleasure in marriage and on the superiority of virginity to the married state suggest that she is reacting chiefly to the dominant "rigorist" school of thought on these topics (e.g., Jerome, Bromyard) rather than to a more "liberal" attitude espoused in some Victorine and Chartrist thought.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.