The Wife of Bath and the Dream of Innocence

Author / Editor
Harwood, Britton J.

Title
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