Chaucer's Wyf of Bath.
- Author / Editor
- Curtis, Penelope.
Chaucer's Wyf of Bath.
- Published
- Critical Review (Melbourne) 10 (1967): 33-45.
- Description
- Reads WBPT (with attention to the GP description of the Wife) as a "crucial example" of the way Chaucer "sees the relation between deception and self-deception" and a "median" among the Canterbury pilgrims as a gauge of hypocrisy. Balanced between the robust comedy of the Miller and self-defeating vice of the Pardoner, the Wife perches between truth and deception, or "more precisely," between "disclosure . . . and concealment of her nature."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Miller and His Tale
Pardoner and His Tale