The Wife of Bath And the Problem of Mastery
- Author / Editor
- Magee, Patricia A.
The Wife of Bath And the Problem of Mastery
- Published
- Massachusetts Studies in English 3 (1971): 40-45.
- Description
- Argues that the Wife of Bath is a "psychologically complex character" and that WBPT reveal that she desires, not mastery per se, but "'that thing which she does not have'" (italics in original), signaling a discrepancy between what she "thinks she wants and what she 'really' wants."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale