A Woman's Life : The Reception History of the Wife of Bath's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Takahashi, Isamu.
A Woman's Life : The Reception History of the Wife of Bath's Tale
- Published
- Eigo Seinen 146.8: 499-501, 2000.
- Description
- Surveys the transformations of the Wife of Bath in "The Wanton Wife of Bath" (1600), Johnson's "A New Sonnet of a Knight and a Faire Virgin" (1612), Fletcher's "Women Pleased" (1620), "Pilgrim's Progress" (1678), "The New Wife of Bath" (1700), Gay's "Wife of Bath" (1711), and "The Riddle" of W. A. Raleigh (1895).
- In Japanese.
- Alternative Title
- "Aru onna no isshō: 'Bāsu no nyōbō' juyōshi."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.