The Wife of Bath's 'Unlawfull Philtrum'

Author / Editor
Rowland, Beryl

Title
The Wife of Bath's 'Unlawfull Philtrum'

Published
Neophilologus 56 (1972): 201-06.

Description
Identifies analogues to the Wife of Bath's contrast between wheat and barley breads (WBP 3.143-44), arguing that she has herself baked "Priapic" barley loaves and that the description in its context exemplifies the combination of "exegetical and folklore materials" characteristic of WBP.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations