Sir Gawain and the Green Hag: The Real Meaning of the Wife of Bath's Tale

Author / Editor
Burton, T. L.

Title
Sir Gawain and the Green Hag: The Real Meaning of the Wife of Bath's Tale

Published
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 75-80.

Description
A playful send-up of literary criticism, especially efforts to psychoanalyze characters. Explains features of WBT in terms of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and vice versa.

Alternative Title
Seyd in Forme and Reverence: Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.