'Glose Whoso Wole': Voice, Text and Authority in The Wife of Bath's Prologue
- Author / Editor
- Lawton, Lesley.
'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.