Chaucer's Weaving Wife.
- Author / Editor
- Garbáty, Thomas Jay.
Chaucer's Weaving Wife.
- Published
- Journal of American Folklore 81 (1968): 342-46.
- Description
- Adduces evidence from various sources to show that the Wife of Bath has characteristics of the archetype of the old bawd, itself rooted in the earlier figure of "sorceress-intermediary" and associated with aging, trade, extravagant dress, and weaving.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations