The Wife of Bath Retold: From the Medieval to the Postmodern.

Author / Editor
Higl, Andrew.

Title
The Wife of Bath Retold: From the Medieval to the Postmodern.

Published
Nancy A. Barta-Smith and Danette DiMarco, eds. Inhabited by Stories: Critical Essays on Tales Retold (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2012), pp. 294-313.

Description
Reads various adaptations of WBPT in light of the time in which each of the individual "iterations" of the Wife was produced, from scribal adjustments in manuscripts, to ballad versions, to John Gay's dramatic adaptation and William Blake's commentary, to the BBC television version and Marcia Williams's graphic version for children (2007). Includes recurrent concern with the "ethics of gender."

Contributor
Nancy A. Barta-Smith, ed.
Danette DiMarco, ed.

Alternative Title
Inhabited by Stories: Critical Essays on Tales Retold.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Recordings and Films