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- McCall , John P. 1979 . Chaucer Among the Gods , University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press .
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- Lumiansky . Sondry Folk 126 – 29 .
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- Owen , Charles A. 1953 . “The Crucial Passages in Five of the Canterbury Tales, A Study in Irony and Symbol,” . JEGP , 52 : 294 – 311 . pioneering and still fundamental study
- Wagen‐knecht , Edward , ed. 1959 . Chaucer, Modem Essays in Criticism , 260 New York : Oxford University Press .
- Robinson , F.N. , ed. 1957 . The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, , 2nd ed. , Boston : Houghton Mifflin .
- Kaske , R.E. 1973 . “Chaucer's Marriage Group,” . In Chaucer the Love Poet , Edited by: Mitchell , Jerome and Provost , William . 52 Athens : University of Georgia Press .
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- Verdonk , P. 1976 . ‘ ‘Sire Knyght, Heer Forth Ne Lith No Wey’: A Reading of Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale,” . Neophilologus , 60 : 305 – 07 .
- Colmer , Dorothy . 1973 . “Character and Class in the Wife of Bath's Tale,” . JEGP , 72 : 335
- Ropollo , J.F. 1951 . ‘The Converted Knight in Chaucer's ‘Wife of Bath's Tale,’” . CE , 12 : 263 – 69 .
- Albrecht , W.P. 1951 . ‘The Sermon on ‘Gentilesse,’” . CE , 12 : 459
- Slade , Tony . 1969 . ‘Irony in the Wife of Bath's Tale,” . MLR , 64 : 241 – 47 .
- Howard , Donald R. 1976 . The Idea of the Canterbury Tales , 254 – 55 . Berkeley : University of California Press .
- Burton , T.L. 1978 . ‘The Wife of Bath's Fourth and Fifth Husbands and Her Ideal Sixth: The Growth of a Marital Philosophy,” . ChauR , 13 : 34 – 50 . 46 – 47 .
- Colmer . “Character and Class,” . 336
- Verdonk . ‘"Sire Knyght,’” . 305 307
- Aers , David . 1980 . Chaucer, Langland and the Creative Imagination , London : Routledge and Kegan Paul .
- David , Alfred . 1976 . The Strumpet Muse , 135 – 58 . Bloomington : University of Indiana Press .