Reading or Listening to Alison? Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue

Author / Editor
Newman, Claire.

Title
Reading or Listening to Alison? Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue

Published
English Review (Deddington, Oxfordshire) 13.1 (2003): 2-5.

Description
Summarizes performance features of WBP (echoes of preaching, animal imagery, range of emotion, entertainment value) appropriate to fourteenth-century encounters with the text as an aural experience.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Style and Versification