The 'Wife of Bath's Tale' D 878-881
- Author / Editor
- Kiessling, Nicolas K.
The 'Wife of Bath's Tale' D 878-881
- Published
- Chaucer Review 7.2 (1972): 113-17.
- Description
- Argues that the Wife of Bath's reference to an incubus (3.880) is not an aggressive critique of the Friar's "deficient virility" as editors assume but instead a gentle and teasing jibe.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Friar and His Tale