Forum: The Wife of Bath

Author / Editor
Jordan, Robert M., James I Wimsatt, and Mary Carruthers.

Title
Forum: The Wife of Bath

Published
PMLA 94 (1979): 950-53.

Description
An exchange of letters in the PMLA Forum section that comment on the characterization of the Wife of Bath and the role of sources (especially Jerome) and historical contexts in understanding the character.

Contributor
Wimsatt, James I.
Carruthers, Mary (J.)

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