The Wife of Bath's 'Unlawfull Philtrum'
- Author / Editor
- Rowland, Beryl
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