Chaucer's General Prologue, A 497.

Author / Editor
Biggins, D.

Title
Chaucer's General Prologue, A 497.

Published
Notes and Queries 205 (1960): 129-30.

Description
Explores the denotative, connotative, figurative, and ironic implications of the GP description of the Wife of Bath as one who knows "muchel of wandrynge by the weye" (1.497).

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Language and Word Studies