'The Elf-queen, with Hir Joly Compaignye': Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Wynne-Davies, Marion.
'The Elf-queen, with Hir Joly Compaignye': Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale'
- Published
- Marion Wynne-Davies. Women and Arthurian Literature: Seizing the Sword (New York: St. Martin's, 1996), pp. 14-35.
- Description
- While the Wife of Bath's character is proto-feminist, the rape of the maiden and the submission of the woman at the end of WBT point to a dominate patriarchal attitude. By embedding Arthurian myth into WBT and presenting the Wife as a fictional character, Chaucer scrutinizes gender relations without threatening the patriarchal system
- Alternative Title
- Women and Arthurian Literature: Seizing the Sword.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.