'The Wife of Bath's Tale' (Geoffrey Chaucer)

Author / Editor
Swinford, Dean.

Title
'The Wife of Bath's Tale' (Geoffrey Chaucer)

Published
Blake Hobby, ed. The Trickster. Bloom's Literary Themes (New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2010), pp. 229-39.

Series
Bloom's Literary Themes.

Description
Explores how WBT "ironizes the quest motif at the heart" of the romance genre and assesses the extent to which the loathly lady, the knight, and the Wife of Bath may be considered to be tricksters.

Contributor
Hobby, Blake, ed.

Alternative Title
The Trickster.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale