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The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Amsler, Mark. “The Wife of Bath and Women's Power.” Assays 4 (1987): 67-83.

Examines the issues of class standing, wealth, and self-sufficiency for women in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, using the Wife of Bath as an example.

Beidler, Peter G. “Transformations in Gower's Tale of Florent and Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale.” In Chaucer and Gower: Difference, Mutuality, Exchange, edited by R. F. Yeager, pp. 100-14. Victoria, British Colombia: University of Victoria, 1991.

Studies the differences and similarities between John Gower's Tale of Florent and Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale.

Blanch, Robert J. “‘Al was this land fulfild of fayerye’: The Thematic Employment of Force, Willfulness, and Legal Conventions in Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale.Studia Neophilologica 57, no. 1 (1985): 41-51.

Focuses on the legal...

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