A Good Wive Was Ther of Biside Bath
- Author / Editor
- Slover, Judith.
A Good Wive Was Ther of Biside Bath
- Published
- Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 243-55.
- Description
- Surveys medieval attitudes of and about women as background to the GP sketch of the Wife of Bath, WBP, and WBT. Reads the Wife as a conscious manipulator of antifeminist texts, her husbands, and the conventions of romance--all aspects of her proto-liberation.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in "The Canterbury Tales."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.