“Ywimpled wel” : unraveling the layers of medieval masculine insecurities in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale.

• Main Author: Nor Idzafarhane Bagio.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/39864
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Chaucer‟s flamboyant Wife of Bath has been known to be his vehicle in terms of expressing radical ideas on gender issues during his time. This has since led to the various theorectical perspectives on the matter. A woman like The Wife of Bath became a symbol of a woman‟s liberation from gender restr...