Speech, Circumspection, and Orthodontics in the Manciple's Prologue and Tale and the Wife of Bath's Portrait

Author / Editor
Storm, Melvin.

Title
Speech, Circumspection, and Orthodontics in the Manciple's Prologue and Tale and the Wife of Bath's Portrait

Published
Studies in Philology 96: 109-26, 1999.

Description
Discusses Chaucer as political critic and concludes that Chaucer may have developed his self-mocking persona out of self-preservation.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Manciple and His Tale.