Midlife Sex and the BBC "Wife of Bath."

Author / Editor
Stanbury, Sarah.

Title
Midlife Sex and the BBC "Wife of Bath."

Published
Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 196-207.

Description
Examines ageism and Chaucerian echoes in the BBC television adaptation of WBPT, commenting on the lack of concern with age in feminist studies, attitudes towards "cougardom" in the TV episode, and affiliations between middle age and the Middle Ages in a distinctly Chaucerian scene from the episode.

Alternative Title
Chaucer on Screen.

Chaucer Subjects
Recordings and Films
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion