Venomous Tongues: Speech and Gender in Late Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Bardsley, Sandy.
Venomous Tongues: Speech and Gender in Late Medieval England
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
- Physical Description
- 214 pp.
- Description
- Includes brief discussion of the Wife of Bath's claim that verbal disorder is the special preserve of women; in this way, the Wife shares important parallels with the unruly wife of Noah in the Chester and York Flood plays.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.