Geoffrey Chaucer: The Wife of Bath: Complete Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical Perspect
- Author / Editor
- Beidler, Peter G., ed.
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Wife of Bath: Complete Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical Perspect
- Published
- Boston and New York: Bedford-St. Martin's, 1996.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 306 pp.
- Series
- Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism.
- Description
- Based on the Hengwrt manuscript, this edition of WBPT and the Wife's sketch from GP is designed for classroom use. It includes notes and glossary, a biographical sketch of Chaucer, a guide to pronunciation and verse, and a summary of historical contexts. Beidler surveys the history of responses to the Wife of Bath, and accompanying essays and bibliographies introduce five critical approaches--new historicist, Marxist, psychoanalytic, deconstructionist, and feminist--and apply them to the Wife. The introductions to the critical approaches are by Ross C. Murfin; for the essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Geoffrey Chaucer: "The Wife of Bath" under Alternative Title.
- Contributor
- Murfin, Ross C.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
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