What Women Really Want: The Genesis of Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Field, P. J. C.
What Women Really Want: The Genesis of Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale
- Published
- Arthurian Literature 27 (2010): 59-83.
- Description
- Reviews scholarship that discusses analogues of WBT and hypothesizes the nature and date of the archetype of these tales, focusing on the relative chronology of major motifs, shared and unshared. A hypothetical summary of the archetype--presented as a basis for gauging Chaucer's originality--concludes the work.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations