Ovid and the "Marital Dilemma" in "The Wife of Bath's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Hoffman, Richard L.
Ovid and the "Marital Dilemma" in "The Wife of Bath's Tale."
- Published
- American Notes and Queries 3.7 (1965): 101.
- Description
- Identifies Ovid's "Amores" 3.4.41-42 as a possible source for the "incompatibility of beauty and marital fidelity" that underlies the choice offered by the loathly lady to the knight in WBT 3.1219-27.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations