The "Wife of Bath's Tale" and the Mirror Tradition.
- Author / Editor
- Bradley, Sister Ritamary, C. H. M.
The "Wife of Bath's Tale" and the Mirror Tradition.
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 55 (1956): 324-30.
- Description
- Comments on how "the medieval mirror and wisdom metaphor is utilized" in WBP and helps to characterize the Wife, ironically, as a figure of comic "worldly prudence" rather than true wisdom. Cites other examples from CT of ironic characterization "built basically on a contrast between exemplary or mirror values and realistic details."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
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