The 'Wife of Bath's Tale' D 878-881

Author / Editor
Kiessling, Nicolas K.

Title
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