The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale.
- Author / Editor
- Scala, Elizabeth.
The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale.
- Published
- Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 105-20.
- Description
- Explains how the Wife of Bath dominates not only her own material in WBPT, but also CT as a whole. Discusses generic expectations for the Wife and her handling of biblical and classical material, to demonstrate that she represents "an irreducibly disruptive way of reading, knowing, and desiring" in CT.
- Alternative Title
- Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations