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  2. The Wife of Bath's Tale - Wikipedia

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    "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 long as her ...

  3. The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle - Wikipedia

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    "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle" was most likely written after Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale", one of The Canterbury Tales.The differences between the two almost identical plots lead scholars to believe that the poem is a parody of the romantic medieval tradition.

  4. The Marriage of Sir Gawain - Wikipedia

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    Found in the Percy Folio, it is a fragmented account of the story of Sir Gawain and the loathly lady, which has been preserved in fuller form in the medieval poem The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle. [2] The loathly lady episode itself dates at least back to Geoffrey Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales. [3]

  5. Loathly lady - Wikipedia

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    The loathly lady (Welsh: dynes gas, Motif D732 in Stith Thompson's motif index), is a tale type commonly used in medieval literature, most famously in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale. [1] The motif is that of a woman who appears unattractive (ugly, loathly ) but undergoes a transformation upon being approached by a man in spite of ...

  6. John Gay - Wikipedia

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    A miser looks at his hoard of gold through his spectacles, with six lines of poetry by John Gay. Among Gay's works are: Wine – 1708; The Present State of Wit – 1711; The Wife of Bath – 1713; The Rural Sports – 1713; The Shepherd's Week – 1714; The What D'Ye Call It – 1715; Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London – 1716

  7. Mary Chandler - Wikipedia

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    The loss was made good in the third edition, issued in 1736, which included a poem 'To Doctor Oliver, who corrected my Bath poem'. A fourth edition followed in 1738, and a fifth in 1741. A wealthy gentleman, of sixty, struck with one of her poems, travelled eighty miles to see her, and, after buying a pair of gloves from her, offered to make ...

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  9. Wife of Bath - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Wife of Bath