The Wife of Bath and Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew'

Author / Editor
Bergeron, David M.

Title
The Wife of Bath and Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew'

Published
University Review 35 (1969): 279-86.

Description
Treats WBPT as an analogue to Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew," observing shared "allusions, rhetorical formulas, [and] character presentations" as well as the theme of the "problems of marriage." The two works share "many common denominators," but source speculation may be "idle."

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations