The Old Wives' Tale and Dryden

Author / Editor
Haas, Renate.

Title
The Old Wives' Tale and Dryden

Published
Marie-Francoise Alamichel and Derek Brewer, eds. The Middle Ages After the Middle Ages in the English-Speaking World (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 1997), pp. 91-101.

Description
Recognizing parallels between "The Wife of Bath and Her Tale" and contemporary female practice, Dryden intensified the elements of faery and magic in his version of the "Tale." In addition, he greatly reduced the lively presence of the Wife, producing a view of women and their emancipatory endeavors that is substantially more negative than Chaucer's.

Alternative Title
Middle Ages After the Middle Ages in the English-Speaking World.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.