Just How Loathly Is the "Wyf "? Deconstructing Chaucer's "Hag"in "The Wife of Bath's Tale."

Author / Editor
Stock, Lorraine Kochanske.

Title
Just How Loathly Is the "Wyf "? Deconstructing Chaucer's "Hag"in "The Wife of Bath's Tale."

Published
Dorsey Armstrong, Ann W. Astell, and Howell Chickering, eds. Magistra doctissima: Essays in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler (Kalmazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2013), pp.33-42.

Description
Objects to the labeling of the loathly "wyf" in WBT as a "hag," arguing that the latter term is inappropriate and tendentious, especially since the Tale lacks a description of ugliness found in its analogues.

Alternative Title
Magistra doctissima

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relatios