The Wife of Bath's Lenten Observance

Author / Editor
Cotter, James Finn.

Title
The Wife of Bath's Lenten Observance

Published
Papers on Language and Literature 7 (1971): 293-97.

Description
Identifies the "sharp incongruity" between the Wife of Bath's remarks on her initial encounter with Jankyn (WBP 3.543ff.) and Lenten sermons and traditions, sharpened by the irony of the Wife's two references to the Lenten season.

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