Love and Marriage in the "Wife of Bath's Prologue."

Author / Editor
Lipton, Emma.

Title
Love and Marriage in the "Wife of Bath's Prologue."

Published
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017.

Physical Description
[8 pp.]

Description
Explores how and to what extent the WBP "presents both the challenges to women's agency posed by medieval marriage and, conversely, the ways existing practices of medieval marriage could be manipulated to empower women." Designed for pedagogical use, includes several questions for discussion.

Alternative Title
The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale