The Alliterative Ancestry of Dunbar's 'The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo'
- Author / Editor
- Singh, Catherine.
The Alliterative Ancestry of Dunbar's 'The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo'
- Published
- Leeds Studies in English 7 (1973): 22-54.
- Description
- Claims that William Dunbar's debt to Chaucer (WBPT) in his "Tua Meriit Wemen and the Wedo, "although "important and considerable, is often exaggerated beyond helpfulness." The poem owes a great deal to earlier alliterative poetry, in particular "Pearl" by way of the mediating poem, "Tayis Bank."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale