Antifeminist Tradition in Arthur and Gorlagon and the Quest to Understand Women

Author / Editor
Brady, Lindy.

Title
Antifeminist Tradition in Arthur and Gorlagon and the Quest to Understand Women

Published
Notes and Queries 257 (2012): 163-66.

Description
"Arthur and Gorlagon" and WBPT share numerous misogynist topoi as well as the plot element of a mission to understand women. The Latin romance is thus "a more significant analogue for the combined Prologue and Tale . . . than has been recognized."

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations