The Wife of Bath in Afterlife

Description:

"This study investigates interpretation of a late-fourteenth-century fictional character in both verbal and visual art of the period 1660-1810. Audiovisual analysis and diachronic afterlife studies intertwine concerning the Wife of Bath in songs, scholarship, commentary, poetic paraphrases, musical theater in London and on the Continent, paintings, and book illustration"--

subjects: Chaucer, geoffrey, -1400,  Women in literature,  Women in art,  Women in popular culture,  Characters,  Women,  Wife of Bath,  Wife of Bath (Fictitious character),  Women in music