English, Department of
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
1965
Citation
Annuale Mediaevale (1965) 6: 47-65
Duquesne Studies
Abstract
Explores how female sovereignty in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale results in "the subservience of the class function to the bourgeois ethic which the Wife represents," indicating parallels in Genesis. Alison controls the merchant class in her first three marriages; the clergy in her marriage to Jankyn. In the Wife of Bath, she subordinates the aristocratic King Arthur and the knight to female control.
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Copyright 1965, Robert S. Haller. Used by permission