What Women Want Most: A One-Act Play Based on Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale.
- Author / Editor
- Hatton, Thomas J.
What Women Want Most: A One-Act Play Based on Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale.
- Published
- Chicago: Dramatic Publishing, 1982.
- Physical Description
- 24 pp.
- Description
- Adapts WBT for the stage, maintaining its Arthurian setting, the life-question, concern for female mastery, and faithful/faithless choice. Eliminates the rape motif (here a kiss) and the magical transformation (here a matter of disguise). Characters include Arthur and Guinevere, Leonore (the maiden, also named Alison), Sir Galahad (Leonore's fiancé), and Sir Harold Pendragon (the offending knight).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
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