'Experience Woot Well It Is Noght So': Marriage and the Pursuit of Happiness in the Wie of Bath's Prologue and Tale
- Author / Editor
- Patterson, Lee.
'Experience Woot Well It Is Noght So': Marriage and the Pursuit of Happiness in the Wie of Bath's Prologue and Tale
- Published
- Peter G. Beidler, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer: "The Wife of Bath." (Boston and New York: Bedford-St. Martin's, 1996), pp. 133-54.
- Description
- A new-historicist reading that focuses on the conditions of marriage depicted in WBPT to show how the Wife uses the late-medieval marital system for her own private, emotional advantage. She capitalizes on the social and economic opportunities of wifedom and widowhood rather than seeking to challenge them.
- Alternative Title
- Geoffrey Chaucer: "The Wife of Bath": Complete Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical Perspectives.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.