The Wife of Bath in Afterlife: Ballads to Blake.

Author / Editor
Bowden, Betsy.

Title
The Wife of Bath in Afterlife: Ballads to Blake.

Published
Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 2017.

Physical Description
xxiii, 391 pp.; 43 b&w illus.

Description
Analyzes manifestations of the Wife of Bath throughout 1660-1810, in seven chapters on primarily verbal art and seven on primarily visual art. Melds methodologies from the disciplines of literature, art history, musicology, education, folklore, print marketing, equitation, and especially theater, both in London and on the Continent.

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