The Wife of Bath

The Wyves Tale of Bathe and prologue are among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. They give insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and are probably of interest to Chaucer himself, for the character is one of his most developed ones, with her prologue twice as long as her tale. She holds her own among the bickering pilgrims, and evidence in the manuscripts suggests that although she was first assigned a different, plainer tale-

Author(s): Geoffrey Chaucer

ISBN 10: 1617206253
ISBN 13: 9781617206252
Pages: 40
Format: Paperback
Publication: 1/24/2012

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