Chaucer's Dame Alys: Critics in Blunderland?

Author / Editor
Rowland, Beryl.

Title
Chaucer's Dame Alys: Critics in Blunderland?

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 73 (1972): 381-95.

Description
Challenges characterizations of the Wife of Bath that treat her as an icon or as a representative figure. Reads WBP for the ways that it may be regarded as a "modern case history" that reflects a complex personality rife with desires and regrets.

Alternative Title
"Studies Presented to Tauno Mustanoja on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday."

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale