The Wife of Bath and 'Speche Daungerous'
- Author / Editor
- Wood, Chauncey.
The Wife of Bath and 'Speche Daungerous'
- Published
- Robert Myles and David Williams, eds. Chaucer and Language: Essays in Honour of Douglas Wurtele (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001), pp. 33-43, 191-92.
- Description
- In light of Reason's discussion of direct language in "Roman de la Rose," the Wife of Bath's euphemisms and circumlocution characterize her as unreasonable and a misuser of language.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and Language: Essays in Honour of Douglas Wurtele.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Language and Word Studies.