The Wife of Bath

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Book Overview

The Canterbury Tales recounts the stories told by pilgrims to one another as they make their way from London to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury. This volume contains the Wife of Bath's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312111282
• ISBN13: 9780312111281
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Bedford Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Literary Criticism for The Wife of Bath

This book has historical context; The Wife's prologue and tale; New Historicism Criticism regarding The Wife; Marxism and Psychoanalytic Criticism; and Deconstruction and Feminist Criticism. For anyone doing a paper, class, or any type of study regarding The Wife of Bath, this is an excellent book to have. It is easy to read and understand. You get to view the Wife of Bath from 5 different critical perspectives and each chapter ends with a Works Cited page which is an excellent reference for further research.

An Excellent Book about the Wife of Bath!

I recommend this book to anybody interested in Sir Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath or the Canterbury Tales. The essays and articles are insightful, well-written, and extremely thought provoking. If you are a fan or a student studying the Canterbury Tales and you need to read more about the Wife of Bath, this is the book for you. I love the style and design of the book. It is well structured and organized. No other book out there covers the Wife of Bath like this book.

Great survey of criticism on Wife of Bath

Beilder takes a whirlwind review of the world of Chaucer criticism. In his introduction, Beidler shows the reader the many levels of thought that are still occuring about Chaucer to this very day.