Old 'Wives' and Their Sources: The Wife of Bath, 'The Romance of the Rose,' 'Genji Monogatari,' and 'Ise Monogatari'

Author / Editor
Ho, Cynthia.

Title
Old 'Wives' and Their Sources: The Wife of Bath, 'The Romance of the Rose,' 'Genji Monogatari,' and 'Ise Monogatari'

Published
Poetica 44 (1995): 1-12.

Description
Comments on differences and similarities among these characters: the Wife of Bath as depicted in WBP, La Vieille of "Roman de la Rose," and old women who take young lovers in two medieval Japanese narratives.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.