Astrology and the Wife of Bath: A Reinterpretation

Author / Editor
Hamlin, B. F.

Title
Astrology and the Wife of Bath: A Reinterpretation

Published
Chaucer Review 9 (1974): 153-65.

Description
Studies the astrological references in WBP and casts her horoscope, interpreting it to show that Chaucer illumines "the entire character of the Wife with a configuration of planets unique in the fourteenth century," a configuration that occurred in 1342.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale