Old 'Wives' and Their Sources: The Wife of Bath, 'The Romance of the Rose,' 'Genji Monogatari,' and 'Ise Monogatari'
- Author / Editor
- Ho, Cynthia.
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.