The Wife of Bath's 'Prologue,' LL. 328-336, and Boccaccio's Decameron
- Author / Editor
- Finlayson, John.
The Wife of Bath's 'Prologue,' LL. 328-336, and Boccaccio's Decameron
- Published
- Neophilologus 83: 313-16, 1999.
- Description
- Contends that the Wife's defense against the charges of adultery (i.e., sex is a lantern that may be shared by many without depriving the owner) is a combination of a simile in the Roman de la Rose and a more exact parallel in Decameron 6.7, where Madonna Filippa defends herself against similar charges.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.