The Wife of Bath and the Dream of Innocence
- Author / Editor
- Harwood, Britton J.
The Wife of Bath and the Dream of Innocence
- Published
- Modern Language Quarterly 33 (1972): 257-73.
- Description
- Analyzes the Wife of Bath's sense of guilt for her life of lust and rapaciousness, reading details of WBP as evidence of this guilt and WBT as a reflection of her "thirst for innocence" which has not been satisfied. The characterization is a rich psychological portrait.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale