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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 ...
The Man of Law's Tale: Fragment III: D The Wife of Bath's Tale The Friar's Tale The Summoner's Tale: Fragment IV: E The Clerk's Tale The Merchant's Tale: Fragment V: F The Squire's Tale The Franklin's Tale: Fragment VI: C The Physician's Tale The Pardoner's Tale: Fragment VII: B 2: The Shipman's Tale The Prioress's Tale Sir Thopas Tale The Tale ...
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 ...
The Ellesmere Chaucer, or Ellesmere Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, is an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, owned by the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California (EL 26 C 9). It is considered one of the most significant copies of the Tales.
Canterbury Tales is a series of six single dramas that originally aired on BBC One in 2003. Each story is an adaptation of one of Geoffrey Chaucer 's 14th-century Canterbury Tales . While the stories have been transferred to a modern 21st-century setting, they are still set along the traditional Pilgrims' route to Canterbury.
The Pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer are the main characters in the framing narrative of the book. In addition, they can be considered as characters of the framing narrative the Host, who travels with the pilgrims, the Canon, and the fictive Geoffrey Chaucer, the teller of the tale of Sir Thopas (who might be considered distinct from the Chaucerian narrator, who is in turn ...
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories, mostly in verse, written by Geoffrey Chaucer chiefly from 1387 to 1400. They are held together in a frame story of a pilgrimage on which each member of the group is to tell two tales on the way to Canterbury, and two on the way back.
The Cook's Tale; The Man of Law's Tale; The Wife of Bath's Tale; The Friar's Tale; The Summoner's Tale; The Clerk's Tale; The Merchant's Tale; The Squire's Tale; The Franklin's Tale; The Physician's Tale; The Pardoner's Tale; The Shipman's Tale; The Prioress's Tale; Sir Thopas; The Tale of Melibee; The Monk's Tale; The Nun's Priest's Tale; The ...