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  2. The Wife of Bath's Tale - Wikipedia

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    The Wife of Bath's Prologue is, by far, the longest in The Canterbury Tales and is twice as long as the actual story, showing the importance of the prologue to the significance of the overall tale. In the beginning, the wife expresses her views in which she believes the morals of women are not merely that they all solely desire "sovereignty ...

  3. The Wife of Bath (play) - Wikipedia

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    The Wife of Bath is a 1713 comedy play by the British writer John Gay. It was inspired by The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer. The play marked a conscious switch by Gay towards an apolitical and distant past, after his contemporary work The Mohocks had faced controversy and censorship the previous year. [2]

  4. General Prologue - Wikipedia

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    The frame story of the poem, as set out in the 858 lines of Middle English which make up the General Prologue, is of a religious pilgrimage. The narrator, Geoffrey Chaucer, is in The Tabard Inn in Southwark, where he meets a group of 'sundry folk' who are all on the way to Canterbury, the site of the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket, a martyr reputed to have the power of healing the sinful.

  5. The Canterbury Tales (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Brown Thorn - the wife of Bath meets Jenkin. Padstow Obby Oss song- the wife of Bath meets Jenkin at the festival. Our Wedding Day - the wife of Bath argues with Jenkin. Hal An Tow - Alan and John at Cambridge, also whistled by them at Simkin's mill. Campanero - sung by John at Simkin's mill. Little Beggarman - sung by Molly.

  6. Canterbury Tales (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Jetender is a wealthy money-lender and importer/exporter: an Asian 'godfather' figure to his community. He goes into business with the young Pushpinder, who falls in love with Jetender's beautiful and extravagant wife, Meena. Meena claims that Jetender is a tyrant who makes her life hell, and she is also heavily in debt.

  7. 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 ...

  8. The Wives of Bath - Wikipedia

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    The Wives of Bath is a novel by Susan Swan, inspired by her own childhood experiences at Havergal College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Plot introduction [ edit ]

  9. Wife of Bath - Wikipedia

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