The Wife of Bath in Afterlife
Lehigh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61146-243-2 (ISBN)
Betsy Bowden is professor emerita of English at Rutgers University.
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Introduction. Overview: The Wife of Bath Midway in Time between Chaucer and
Ourselves
Chapter 1: Ballads: Versions and Variants of The Wanton Wife of Bath (ca. 1600-ca.
1850)
Chapter 2: Scholarship: The Wife of Bath in Editions and Anthologies (1598-1778)
Chapter 3: Commentary: Quasi-Pedagogical Musings on the Wife of Bath, by Richard Brathwait (1665)
Chapter 4: Modernizations: The Wife of Bath Paraphrased by Three Poets (1700-1750)
Chapter 5: Plays: The Wife of Bath by John Gay (1713, Revised 1730)
Chapter 6: Plays: The Wife in the Wings of Two Comedies, by Elizabeth Cooper (1735) and David Garrick (1773)
Chapter 7: Translations: Le Conte de la Femme de Bath Paraphrased by Voltaire (1763) and Others on the Continent
Chapter 8: Book Illustrations: The Wife Alone on Horseback, by an Artist Otherwise Unknown (1721)
Chapter 9: Picture Series: The Wife Alone on Foot, by James Jefferys (1781)
Chapter 10: Book Illustrations: Scenes from the Wife of Bath’s Tale, by Four Artists (1751-1806)
Chapter 11: Paintings: The Wife of Bath’s Tale by Henry Fuseli (ca. 1810), and a
Chaucerian Subject by Angelica Kauffman (ca. 1772)
Chapter 12: Book Illustrations: The Wife among Pilgrims Riding toward Canterbury, by
Three Artists (1721-1795)
Chapter 13: Book Illustrations, then a Painting: Chaucer Himself Succumbing to the
Wife’s Chatty Charm, by Thomas Stothard (1782-1806)
Chapter 14: Audiovisual Oneness: The Wife of Bath by William Blake (1809)
Conclusion: Undertones: The Wife of Bath neither Over nor Out
Appendices, prepared by Mary-Jo Arn
Appendix A. Three Variants of The Wanton Wife of Bath
Appendix A1: Shorter Variant
Appendix A2: Longer Variant
Appendix A3: Dutch Text and Translation of Shorter Variant
Appendix B. Two French Translations of Dryden’s Wife of Bath Her Tale
Appendix B1: Anonymous Translation of 1757
Appendix B2: Anonymous Translation of 1764
Works Cited by Short Title
I. Primary Works by Individuals
II. Commentary and Contexts
III. Anthologies and Reference Works
Index
About the Author
Erscheinungsdatum | 25.02.2018 |
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Reihe/Serie | Studies in Text & Print Culture |
Verlagsort | Cranbury |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 158 x 238 mm |
Gewicht | 835 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-61146-243-6 / 1611462436 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-61146-243-2 / 9781611462432 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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