The bad woman

The angry woman , even Wibe From the evils or Daz buoch Wibe of the evils , is a mid- 13th century resulting medieval farcical Versdichtung an unknown author.

content

A male first-person narrator reports in the work about his quarrelsome wife who beat him up. According to Gero von Wilpert's Lexicon of World Literature , the “comedy of the naturalistic content” of the “cocky-grotesque” narrative is enhanced by the “courtly tone of the language”.

The poem consists of 820 verses .

expenditure

The bad woman was made available to a wider audience in 1919 together with Der Weinschwelg as Zwei Altdeutsche Schwänke by Edward Schröder . In 1955 and 1968 further publications of the Schwankdichtung followed under the title Daz buoch of the evil wîbe .

See also

• Domestic violence

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gero von Wilpert (Ed.): Lexicon of world literature . German-speaking authors; Kröner 2004, p. 69.