The Woe That Is in Marriage

Author / Editor
Postmus, Bouwe

Title
The Woe That Is in Marriage

Published
Tony Bex, Michael Burke, and Peter Stockwell, eds. (Contextualized Stylistics: In Honour of Peter Verdonk. Amsterdam.: Rodopi, 2000), pp. 103-11.

Description
Argues that a seventeenth-century play, "The Wisest Have Their Fools About Them," may reflect the influence of Chaucerian fabliau and some late-medieval stage traditions. Baldwin's analysis focuses on stereotypical characters.

Contributor
Bex, Tony,. ed.
Burke, Michael, ed.
Stockwell, Peter, ed.

Alternative Title
Contextualized Stylistics: In Honour of Peter Verdonk.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.