Ovid and the Wife of Bath's Tale of Midas.
- Author / Editor
- Hoffman, Richard L.
Ovid and the Wife of Bath's Tale of Midas.
- Published
- Notes and Queries 211 (1966): 48-50.
- Description
- Compares the Wife of Bath's version of the Midas exemplum with Ovid's original in "Metamorphoses," suggesting that the divergences exemplify the Wife's penchant for misquoting and/or misunderstanding authorities and align with her deafness, a figurative version of "wearing the ass's ears of Midas."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations