Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale (and 'marriage-group')

G. L. Kittredge    MP 9 1911-12    Ch's Discussion of Marriage (on marriage group: followed by Hinckley PMLA '17, Lawrence MP 1914, Kenyon JEGP 1916, C. Brown PMLA 1933, C. P. Lyons ELH 1935)

Margaret Schlauch    PMLA 61 46    The Marital Dilemma in WBT

B. F. Huppé    MLN 1948    Rape & women's sovereignty in WBT

Wayne Shumaker    ELH 18 51    Alisoun in Wonder-land

Theodore Silverstein    MP 58 61    WB and Rhetoric of Enchantment

R. A. Pratt    Baugh F/S, ed. MacEdward Leach (Penn 61)    Development of WB (see Jones in    JEGP 1925)

R. Miller    ELH 1965    WB

A. V. C. Schmidt    NQ 1967    [Husband no. 5 is not dead]

D. Silvia    NQ 1967    [Yes he is]

Charles Koban    ChauR 5 71    Hearing Chaucer out: Art of Persuasion in WB [importance of oral delivery and effects within tale too]

Gloria Shapiro    ChauR 6 71 Dame Alice as Deceptive Narrator

B. J. Harwood    MLQ 33 72    WB and the dream of innocence

B. Rowland    Neoph. 56 72    WB's unlawful philtrum [phallic bread-baking]

B. Rowland    NM 73 72    Chaucer's Dame Alys

M. P. Hamilton    MS 34 72    Helowys and Jankyn's book

B. Rowland    Archiv 209 72-3    Death of 4th husband

D. Colmer    JEGP 72 73    Character and class in WBT

R. F. Fleissner    ChauR 8 73    The W of Bath's Five

A. Kiernan    ELH 41 74    The Archwife and the Eunuch

T. A. Reisner    MP 71 73-4    WB's dower: a legal interpret. 

W. Matthews    Viator 5 74    The WB and all her sect

B. F. Hamlin    ChauR 9 74    Astrology & WB

James Boren    NM 76 75    Alysoun and the Vulgate perfect wife (Prov. 31. 10)

Hope P. Weissman    Antifeminism in Ch    In Ch: A Collect. of Original Essays, G. D. Economou, ed.     McGraw Hill 75

P. Verdonk    Neoph 60 76    A reading of WBT

Eric Brown    ChauR 10 76    Transformation & the WBT: a Jungian discussion (also ChauR 12)

Graham Caie    ChauR 10 76    Signif. of Early Glosses to WBP

Kenneth Oberembt    ChauR 10 76    Ch's Anti-Misogynist WB

Rodney Delasanta    ChauR 12 77    Alisoun & the Saved Harlots: A Cozening of our Expectations

W. G. East    ChauR 12 77    Fragment D "By Preeve which that is demonstratif"

Donald Sands    ChauR 12 78    The non-comic, non-tragic wife -- Sociopath

T. L. Burton    Chau R 13 78    WB's 4th, 5th and ideal 6th: growth of marital philosophy

Jas. W. Cook    ChauR 13 78    That she was oute of alle charitee: point counterpoint in WB's P and T

R. Cook    ES 59 78    Another biblical echo in WBP [pissing on wall]

Mary Carruthers    PMLA 94 79    WB and the painting of lions

Mary Hamel    ChauR 14 79    WB and a contemporary murder

Z. P. Thundy    Matheolus in WBP    In Chaucerian Problems & Perspectives, ed. E. Vasta    Notre Dame P. 79

D. W. Robertson    ChauR 14 80    Land tenure, cloth industry & WB

Hope P. Weissman    ChauR 15 80    Why Chaucer's wife is from Bath

Jas. Spisak    NM 81 80    Anti-feminism bridled -- the WB

D. Aers    In Chaucer, Langland, and creative Imag.    80

Melvin Storm    MLQ 42 81    Alison's ear [iconograph. signif. of deafness]

Martin Puhvel    StN 53 81    WB and Alice Kyteler: parallels

Patrick Gallacher    Viator 13 82    Dame Alice & the nobility of pleasure

N. F. Blake    LSE 13 82    WB and her tale

Marjorie Malvern    SP 80 83    Who painted the lion?

Lee Patterson    Spec. 58 83    Feminine rhetoric & poetic resolution in RR & CT

Esther Quinn    ChauR 18 84    Ch's Arthurian romance

Robert Meyer    ChauR 18 84    Ch's tandem romances: WBT as palinode

D. W. Robertson    SAC 6 84    WB & Midas

Barbara Gottfried    ChauR 19 85    Parables of power in WBP

Katharina Wilson    ChauR 19 85    Ch & Jerome: use of barley in WBP

Olga Fisher    ES 66 85    Gower's Florent & WBT: stylistic comparison

L. Fradenburg    SAC 8 86    The WB's passing fancy

John Alford    ChauR 21 86    Rivalry of WB & Clerk

Susan Crane    PMLA 102 87    Alison's incapacity and poetic instability in WBT

Barrie Ruth Strauss    ELH 55 88    Subversive discourse of WB: phallocentric discourse & the imprisonment of criticism

D. Wurtele    ChauR 23 88-89    WB, problem of 5th husband

R. Hanna    Compilatio & WB: Latin backgrounds, vernac. texts    In Latin & Vernacular, ed. A. J. Minnis    Brewer 89

A. Blamires    MAE 58 89    WB & Lollardy

Peggy Knapp    ChauR 24 89-90    WB & reappropriation of tradition

H. Cooper    Shape-shiftings of WB 1395-1670    Brewer essays 90

A. C. Spearing    Ch's & Dryden's WBT    Brewer essays 90

S. Delany    Strategies of silence in WB    In Hahn, Exemplaria 90

Andrew Galloway    SAC 14 92    Marriage sermons, polemical sermons, & WBP

Wim Tigges    ES 73 92    Reading of WBT

Timothy O'Brien    MLQ 53 92    Troubling waters: the feminine in the WB's performance

Laura Hodges    ChauR 27 92    WB's costumes

A. Lindley    ELH 59 92    Alisoun's absence in WBPT

John Oppel    Viator 24 93    St. Jerome & the history of sex

Lynne Dickson    SAC 15 93    Feminine discourse in WBPT

Cath. Cox    Exemp. 5 93    Promiscuous glossing in WBP

Michael Calabrese,    Ch and the Ovidian arts of love    Florida 1994

A. Spearman    ChauR 29 94-5    How WB misuses proper names

T. A. Van    ChauR 29 94-5    False texts and disappearing women in WBPT

Edward Vasta    Exemplaria 7 95    Ch, Gower & the unknown minstrel: the literary liberation of the loathly lady

Beverly Kennedy    ChauR 30 95-6    Dd. 4. 24 -- misogynous scribe of WBP

Kathryn McKinley    ChauR 30 95-6    Silenced knight: power and reciprocity in WBP

Mishtooni Bose    MAE 65 96    From exegesis to appropriation: the medieval Solomon

Susan Morrison    Exemplaria 8 96    Don't ask, don't tell: WB and vernacular translation

Carol Brown    ChauR 31 96-7    Structure and meaning in WBT

Susanne Thomas    ChauR 31 96-7    Buried legal argument in WBP

Warren Smith    ChauR 32 97-8    WB debates Jerome

Charles Henebry    ChauR 32 97-8    Apprentice/clerk Jankyn and development of WBP

Martin Puhvel    NM 100 99    WBT -- the mirror of her mind

James Marchand    NM 100 99    quoniam in WBP 608

Edgar Laird    ChauR 34 99-00    The astronomer Ptolemy and the morality of WBP

Robert Longsworth    ChauR 34 99-00    The WB and the Samaritan woman

Kathleen Biddick    JMEMS 30 00    The cut of genealogy: pedagogy in the blood [WBT]

S. H. Rigby    ChauR 35 00    The WB, Christine de Pizan, & the medieval case for women

J. B. Friedman    ChauR 35 00    Alice of Bath's astral destiny: a reappraisal