The Speaker of the Wife of Bath Stanza and Envoy
- Author / Editor
- Covella, Sister Francis Dolores.
The Speaker of the Wife of Bath Stanza and Envoy
- Published
- Chaucer Review 4.4 (1970): 267-83.
- Description
- Gauges the "literary probability" that the Envoy to ClT (and the preceding stanza), 4.1170-1212, was intended by Chaucer to be voiced by the Clerk, suggesting that either the Host or the Wife of Bath may be considered the speaker, adducing manuscript evidence, various stages of composition, and dramatic propriety.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies