Quest and Question in 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'

Author / Editor
Speed, Diane.

Title
Quest and Question in 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'

Published
Sydney Studies in English 22 (1996): 3-14.

Description
Comparison of WBT with its analogues reveals Chaucer's manipulation of generic expectations to create a sequence of "evocations and subversions of romance optimism." The hero's conventional quest is supplanted by "a textual quest on the part of the reader."

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.