Cambridge MS. Dd. 4.24: A Misogynous Scribal Revision of the 'Wife of Bath's Prologue'?

Author / Editor
Kennedy, Beverly.

Title
Cambridge MS. Dd. 4.24: A Misogynous Scribal Revision of the 'Wife of Bath's Prologue'?

Published
Chaucer Review 30 (1996): 343-58.

Description
Cambridge MS Dd.4.24 contains a unique version of WBP: it adds five antifeminist passages and renumbers the Wife's husbands, making that section more organized and coherent. It is not possible to determine whether these changes were the work of Chaucer or that of later scribes.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.