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The Wife of Bath. Previous Next. One of two female storytellers (the other is the Prioress), the Wife has a lot of experience under her belt. She has traveled all over the world on pilgrimages, so Canterbury is a jaunt compared to other perilous journeys she has endured.
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The Wife of Bath is one of the most famous characters in all of Chaucer’s poetry, and ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale’ remains a popular tale from The Canterbury Tales. But what can this tale tell us about medieval attitudes to women and marriage?
The Wife of Bath’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Before the Wife of Bath tells her tale, she offers in a long prologue a condemnation of celibacy and a lusty account of her five marriages. It is for this prologue that her tale is perhaps best known.
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The Wife of Bath's Prologue. The Prologe of the Wyves Tale of Bathe. 1 "Experience, though noon auctoritee. "Experience, though no written authority. 2 Were in this world, is right ynogh for me. Were in this world, is good enough for me. 3 To speke of wo that is in mariage; To speak of the woe that is in marriage; 4 For, lordynges, sith I ...
Text and Translations. The General Prologue. The Knight's Tale. The Miller's Tale. The Reeve's Tale. The Cook's Tale. The Man of Law's Tale. The Wife of Bath's Tale. The Friar's Tale.
"The Wife of Bath's Tale" (Middle English: The Tale of the Wyf of Bathe) is among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It provides insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and was probably of interest to Chaucer himself, for the character is one of his most developed ones, with her Prologue twice as ...
The Wife of Bath’s tale of the loathly lady who turns into a beautiful maid is a very common plot. However, the Wife of Bath’s twist is that at the end of the day, women must have sovereignty over their husbands, and that a woman's faithfulness in fact depends on being given freedom. Active Themes.
