The Wife of Bath Critic Quotes

H. Marshall Leicester Jr.

“Alisoun is an early feminist striving for autonomy in an oppressive patriarchal society."

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Hansen

“anti-feminist views by stereotyping medieval ideas about women as cruel, emotional and sexually voracious.”

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Yildiz

“her prologue is taken as a revolutionary document for the age in which it was written.”

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Sally Kinnes

"It is Chaucer's characters who are more memorable than their tales"

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Malcolm Hebron

"We might see the Wife as sacrificing her feminity in pursuit of a feminist cause"

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Fradenburg

"We must assume the Wife of Bath is based on one or more real women"

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S.H. Rigby

"Medieval literature cannot be used directly to read off the reality of medieval social life"

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Nicole Smith

"For the Wife of Bath, money, sex and marriage are all interlinked and none can exist without the other"

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“anti-feminist views by stereotyping medieval ideas about women as cruel, emotional and sexually voracious.”

Hansen

“her prologue is taken as a revolutionary document for the age in which it was written.”

"It is Chaucer's characters who are more memorable than their tales"

"We might see the Wife as sacrificing her feminity in pursuit of a feminist cause"

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