Venomous Tongues: Speech and Gender in Late Medieval England

Author / Editor
Bardsley, Sandy.

Title
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.