The Wife of Bath as Standup Comic

Author / Editor
Rogerson, Margaret.

Title
The Wife of Bath as Standup Comic

Published
SSEng 24: 3-21, 1999.

Description
Compares carnivalesque elements of WBPT to performance techniques of modern, unruly, "women on top" comediennes such as Roseanne Barr and female impersonators such as Barry Humphries (Dame Edna Everage).

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.