The Bedtrick : Tales of Sex and Masquerade
- Author / Editor
- Doniger, Wendy.
The Bedtrick : Tales of Sex and Masquerade
- Published
- Chicago and London : University of Chicago Press, 2000.
- Physical Description
- xxxii, 598 pp.
- Description
- A cross-cultural, transhistorical anatomy of one motif in the "mythology of sex" in literature and film--the "story of going to bed with someone whom you mistake for someone else." Discusses structuralist and psychoanalytic explanations of variations on the motif. Assesses the faithful/unfaithful choice in WBT in contrast with the day/night choice in medieval English analogues of Chaucer's Tale.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.