The Wife of Bath as Storyteller: 'Al Is for to Selle' or Is It? Idealism and Spiritual Growth as Evidenced in the 'Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Hopenwasser, Nanda.
The Wife of Bath as Storyteller: 'Al Is for to Selle' or Is It? Idealism and Spiritual Growth as Evidenced in the 'Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Published
- Medieval Perspectives 10 (1995-96): 101-15.
- Description
- The Wife is "the female shaman" who creates WBT as an initiation rite into manhood.
- Like Margery Kempe and St. Bridget of Sweden, the Wife uses "preaching and teaching to heal the ills of her society through the performative action of storytelling."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.