'Withouten Oother Compaignye in Youthe' : Verbal and Moral Ambiguity in the General Prologue Portrait of the Wife of Bath
- Author / Editor
- Kennedy, Beverly.
'Withouten Oother Compaignye in Youthe' : Verbal and Moral Ambiguity in the General Prologue Portrait of the Wife of Bath
- 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. 1-32, 178-91.
- Description
- Descriptions of the Wife of Bath in GP and in WBP are consciously ambiguous, a means of reminding us to suspend moral judgment because language is inherently ambiguous. Through glosses and textual choices, modern editions oversimplify the Wife by disambiguating her.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and Language: Essays in Honour of Douglas Wurtele.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
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- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.