Rebellious Women: Aphra Behn's Widow Ranter and Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath.
- Author / Editor
- Warren, Nancy Bradley.
Rebellious Women: Aphra Behn's Widow Ranter and Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath.
- Published
- Yearbook of English Studies 53 (2024, for 2023): 101-14.
- Description
- Argues that the widow Ranter of Aphra Behn's "The Widow Ranter; or, The History of Bacon in Virginia" is "a 'reincarnation' of Chaucer's Wife of Bath in the New [W]orld." Behn's play "translates the wife . . . to colonial Virginia to negotiate both gender and class dynamics in the construction of potentially rebellious colonial identities vis-à-vis England."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Wife of Bath and Her Tale