The Stuff of Metaphor: "Fyr" and "tow" in the "Prologue" to the "Wife of Bath's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Stadolnik, Joseph.
The Stuff of Metaphor: "Fyr" and "tow" in the "Prologue" to the "Wife of Bath's Tale."
- Published
- English Studies 97.1 (2016): 15–21.
- Description
- Argues that the Wife's "fyr" and "tow" not only warn against sexual temptation but are also a contemporary "reference to the fatal accident at the "bal des ardents" at the French royal court in 1393, which very nearly took the life of Charles VI."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale