The Wife of Bafa

Author / Editor
Agbabi, Patience.

Title
The Wife of Bafa

Published
Transformatrix (Edinburgh: Payback, 2000), pp. 28-29.

Description
Lyric poem in first-person voice, with recurrent allusions to the WBP and GP description of the Wife of Bath, including gapped teeth, five husbands, and a physical battle with husband number four.

Alternative Title
Transformatrix.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Wife of Bath and Her Tale