The Wife of Bath's Bele Chose.
The Wife of Bath's famous erudition, resistance to authority, and unapologetic sexuality all come together in one of Chaucer's epithets for her private parts. Bele chose (beautiful thing) occurs only three times: in Chaucer's prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale, in a Middle English translation of a...
| Publicado en: | Chaucer Review Vol. 53; no. 3; pp. 336 - 350 |
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Pennsylvania State University Press
2018
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