The Wife of Bath's Tale
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title:
The Wife of Bath's Tale
text:
"The Wife of Bath's Tale" 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 long as her Tale. He also goes so far as to describe two sets of clothing for her, in his General Prologue. She calls herself both Alyson and Alys in the prologue, but to confuse matters, these are also the names
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Part of the Canterbury Tales
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wife_of_Bath%27s_Tale
date created:
2003-12-16T12:41:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T00:22:48Z
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