Shapeshifting and Associated Phenomena as Conventions of the Middle English Metrical Romances.
- Author / Editor
- Long, Clarence Edward.
Shapeshifting and Associated Phenomena as Conventions of the Middle English Metrical Romances.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. University of New Mexico, 1957. Fully accessible via https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/engl_etds/248 (accessed April 24, 2026).
- Physical Description
- v, 294 pp.
- Description
- Traces the "shapeshifting motif" in English literature from "Beowulf" to the late-medieval metrical romances, focusing on the latter. Chapter five includes attention to WBT as an example of the "human-to-human type of shapeshift," along with seven other romances.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale