The Wife of Bath in Afterlife
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The Wife of Bath in Afterlife

Ballads to Blake

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The Wife of Bath in Afterlife

Ballads to Blake

About this book

By focusing on one literary character, as interpreted in both verbal art and visual art at a point midway in time between the author's era and our own, this study applies methodology appropriate for overcoming limitations posed by historical periodization and by isolation among academic specialities. Current trends in Chaucer scholarship call for diachronic afterlife studies like this one, sometimes termed "medievalism." So far, however, nearly all such work by-passes the eighteenth century (here designated 1660-1810). Furthermore, medieval authors' afterlives during any time period have not been analyzed by way of the multiple fields of specialization integrated into this study. The Wife of Bath is regarded through the disciplinary lenses of eighteenth-century literature, visual art, print marketing, education, folklore, music, equitation, and especially theater both in London and on the Continent.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Abbreviations
  3. Introduction: Overview: The Wife of Bath Midway in Time between Chaucer and Ourselves
  4. Chapter 1: Ballads: Versions and Variants of The Wanton Wife of Bath
  5. Chapter 2: Scholarship: The Wife of Bath in Editions and Anthologies (1598–1778)
  6. Chapter 3: Commentary: Quasi-Pedagogical Musings on the Wife of Bath, by Richard Brathwait (1665)
  7. Chapter 4: Modernizations: The Wife of Bath Paraphrased by Three Poets (1700–1750)
  8. Chapter 5: Plays: The Wife of Bath by John Gay (1713, Revised 1730)
  9. Chapter 6: Plays: The Wife in the Wings of Two Comedies, by Elizabeth Cooper (1735) and David Garrick (1773)
  10. Chapter 7: Translations: Le Conte de la Femme de Bath Paraphrased by Voltaire (1763) and Others on the Continent
  11. Chapter 8: Book Illustrations: The Wife Alone on Horseback, by an Artist Otherwise Unknown (1721)
  12. Chapter 9: Picture Series: The Wife Alone on Foot, by James Jefferys (1781)
  13. Chapter 10: Book Illustrations: Scenes from the Wife of Bath’s Tale, by Four Artists (1751–1806)
  14. Chapter 11: Paintings: The Wife of Bath’s Tale by Henry Fuseli (ca. 1810), and a Chaucerian Subject by Angelica Kauffman (ca. 1772)
  15. Chapter 12: Book Illustrations: The Wife among Pilgrims Riding toward Canterbury, by Three Artists (1721–1795)
  16. Chapter 13: Book Illustrations, Then a Painting: Chaucer Himself Succumbing to the Wife’s Chatty Charm, by Thomas Stothard (1782–1806)
  17. Chapter 14: Audiovisual Oneness: The Wife of Bath by William Blake (1809)
  18. Conclusion: Undertones: The Wife of Bath Neither Over nor Out
  19. Appendixes
  20. Appendix A1: Shorter Variant
  21. Appendix A2: Longer Variant
  22. Appendix A3: Dutch Text and Translation of Shorter Variant
  23. Madam Quickbeak: A Folk Tale, in a Pleasant Manner
  24. Appendix B1: Anonymous Translation of 1757
  25. Appendix B2: Anonymous Translation of 1764
  26. Works Cited by Short Title
  27. About the Author