"Bear on Hand" in "The Wife of Bath's Prologue."
- Author / Editor
- Duncan, Edgar H.
"Bear on Hand" in "The Wife of Bath's Prologue."
- Published
- Tennessee Studies in Literature 11 (1966): 19-33.
- Description
- Explicates the thematic and characterizing recurrences of hands and hand imagery in WBP, focusing on the eleven variations of the phrase "bear on hand" as they evoke and sustain the Wife's concern with wifely control in marriage, convey a sense of her as a "living, breathing lucky woman," and eventually reveal her belief that marital control should be mutual.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
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Language and Word Studies