The Wife of Bath in Afterlife: Ballads to Blake

ISBN-13: 9781611462432 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 416 str.

Betsy Bowden

Opis

This study investigates interpretation of a late-fourteenth-century fictional character in both verbal and visual art of the period 1660-1810. Audiovisual analysis and diachronic afterlife studies intertwine concerning the Wife of Bath in songs, scholarship, commentary, poetic paraphrases, musical theater in London and on the Continent, paintings, and book illustrations.