What Thing Is It That People Most (Un)desire? A View on Chaucer's Portrayal of the Process of Aging

Author / Editor
Carrillo Linares, María José.

Title
What Thing Is It That People Most (Un)desire? A View on Chaucer's Portrayal of the Process of Aging

Published
Brian J. Worsfold, ed. Women Ageing Through Literature and Experience (Lleida and Catalunya, Spain: Department of English and Linguistics, University of Lleida, 2005), pp. 21-30.

Description
Depictions of female and male aging in WBT and MerT reflect the reality that human beings wish to remain desirable "in spite of advanced aging."

Alternative Title
Women Ageing Through Literature and Experience.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Merchant and His Tale.