The Wife of Bath as Viewed from Her Prologue: A Study of Her Complexity

Author / Editor
Marwitz, Will[ard].

Title
The Wife of Bath as Viewed from Her Prologue: A Study of Her Complexity

Published
[Jay Ruud, ed.] Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota ([Aberdeen, S.D.: Northern State University, 1989), pp. 158-75.

Description
Comments on assessments of the Wife of Bath as either a "Scarlet Woman" or a "truly liberated woman," concluding that she is best seen as "complicated." Includes a series of "Student Challenges" as a study guide to WBP.

Alternative Title
Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale