Rewriting Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale" from Dryden, through Voltaire, to Niemcewicz: Medievalism or Modernisation?"

Author / Editor
Coghen, Monika.

Title
Rewriting Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale" from Dryden, through Voltaire, to Niemcewicz: Medievalism or Modernisation?"

Published
Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 12.3 (2017): 175-85.

Description
Describes the transmission of WBT, through John Dryden's modernized English version in "Fables: Ancient and Modern" and Voltaire's French in "Ce qui plait aux dames" to Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz's Polish "Co sie damom podoba" in "Pisma rózne wierszem i proza," exploring questions of adapting for taste.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion