On the Timely Death of the Wife of Bath's Fourth Husband
- Author / Editor
- Rowland, Beryl
On the Timely Death of the Wife of Bath's Fourth Husband
- Published
- Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 209 (1972): 273-82.
- Description
- Studies details, allusions, and shifts in speech patterns in WBP, especially those connected with the Wife's false dream of blood and the "tantalizing ambiguous" circumstances of the death of Wife's fourth husband, arguing that they indicate a "pathological state," the Wife's manipulation of Jankyn's fears, and the collaboration of the Wife and Jankyn in killing husband number four.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale