The Knight in Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Lucas, Angela M.
The Knight in Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Published
- Poetica (Tokyo) 35 (1992): 29-40.
- Description
- Compares the knights in "Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell" and Gower's "Tale of Florent" with the knight in WBT to show that the Wife of Bath is an antifeminist character.
- The interaction between the Wife and the knight demonstrates a "battle of the sexes" that portrays women making generous sacrifices to unworthy men.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.