The Wife of Bath: A Biography.
- Author / Editor
- Turner, Marion.
The Wife of Bath: A Biography.
- Published
- Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022.
- Physical Description
- x, 320 pp.; 14 color illus.
- Description
- Combines personal appreciation and critical analysis of the Wife of Bath as a character; Chaucer’s art in creating her and WBPT; and the voluminous historical reception and impact of the Wife from early scribal glosses to international modern adaptations in poetry, drama, fiction, opera, film, children's literature, poster-art, and more. Includes commentary on source study of the Wife; cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds to her in post-plague England; close reading of passages of WBPT; and assessments of adaptations by Shakespeare, Dryden, Pope, Voltaire, Percy MacKaye, James Joyce, Vera Chapman, Caroline Bergvall, Jean “Binta” Breeze, Patience Agbabi, Zadie Smith, and more.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion