Premium Content Mystery, Magic, and “Maistrie”: The Wife of Bath’s Allegorical Apology
By Audrey K. Wallis - April 25, 2008
Bestselling American author Orson Scott Card once said, “Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.” The Canterbury Tales were written over 600 years before Card made that profound statement, but clearly Chaucer would agree with Card’s assertion. Specifically, in “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” one can see the use of metaphors to…
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