'Glose Whoso Wole': Voice, Text and Authority in The Wife of Bath's Prologue

Author / Editor
Lawton, Lesley.

Title
'Glose Whoso Wole': Voice, Text and Authority in The Wife of Bath's Prologue

Published
Wendy Harding, ed. Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2003), pp. 157-74.

Description
The Wife's discourse is on the cusp between the clerkly and the carnivalesque. She is the unstable product of the interplay of various intertexts, creating the illusion of a complex personality. Though sometimes championed by feminists, she at once challenges and is subordinated to official discourse.

Alternative Title
Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.