The 'Traductio' on 'Honde' in the 'Wife of Bath's Prologue'

Author / Editor
Fox, Allan B.

Title
The 'Traductio' on 'Honde' in the 'Wife of Bath's Prologue'

Published
Notre Dame English Journal 9 (1973): 3-8.

Description
Traces the "stylistic and ironic aspects of 'honde'" in WBP, showing how uses of the word and related imagery anticipate the Wife's mastery of Jankyn.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Style and Versification