The Wife of Bath's Non-Hengwrt Lines: Chaucerian Revision or Editorial Meddling?
- Author / Editor
- Eadie, John.
The Wife of Bath's Non-Hengwrt Lines: Chaucerian Revision or Editorial Meddling?
- Published
- Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 96 (1995): 169-76.
- Description
- Four passages (3.575-84, 609-12, 619-26, and 717-20), absent from the majority of manuscripts of WBP, are present in most modern editions.
- They seem to reflect not Chaucer's own revisionary impulse but the work of later editors who wished to bring WBP into line with conventional medieval attitudes toward women.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.