Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Prologue,' Lines 193-828, and Geoffrey of Vinsauf's 'Documentum'
- Author / Editor
- Duncan, Edgar H.
Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Prologue,' Lines 193-828, and Geoffrey of Vinsauf's 'Documentum'
- Published
- Modern Philology 66 (1969): 199-211.
- Description
- Shows that in the Wife of Bath's account of her three "goode" husbands Chaucer "adopted a means of amplification which he found described and illustrated in the 'Documentum de modo et arte dictandi et versificandi' . . . attributed to Geoffrey of Vinsauf"; also evinces the "probability" that Vinsauf's work provided other details and rhetorical models that helped to shape WBP during Chaucer's ongoing composition process.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Style and Versification