In Quest of What's on a Woman's Mind: Gauvain as Dwarf in the Middle Dutch 'Wrake van Ragisel'
- Author / Editor
- Besamusca, Bart.
In Quest of What's on a Woman's Mind: Gauvain as Dwarf in the Middle Dutch 'Wrake van Ragisel'
- Published
- Neophilologus 87: 589-96, 2003.
- Description
- In the Middle Dutch "Wrake van Ragisel" (adapted from the Old French "Vengeance Raguisel"), "Walewein, who is transformed into a dwarf, learns what women are exclusively led by their sexual desire," a different answer to the life question than is found in analogous versions of the tale, including WBT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.