Alisoun through the Looking Glass: Or Every Man His Own Midas

Author / Editor
Allen, Judson Boyce, and Patrick Gallacher.

Title
Alisoun through the Looking Glass: Or Every Man His Own Midas

Published
Chaucer Review 4.2 (1969): 99-105.

Description
Excavates the multi-layered ironies of WBT, focusing on the motifs of transformation and bad judgment and on the Wife of Bath's manipulations of her narrative materials, particularly the Ovidian Midas exemplum.

Contributor
Gallacher, Patrick (J.)

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