From Textual Interpretation to Film Adaptation: The Narratorial, Readerly, and Directorial Gaze at the 'Joly Body' of Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath

Author / Editor
Delony, Mikee Chisholm.

Title
From Textual Interpretation to Film Adaptation: The Narratorial, Readerly, and Directorial Gaze at the 'Joly Body' of Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath

Published
DAI A69.11 (2009): n.p.

Description
Reads the Wife of Bath as "Chaucer's construction of the . . . female body as a literal and metaphoric text," and explores how depictions of the Wife in modern films respond to her critical reception as well as his original creation.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Recordings and Films