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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. 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 ...

  4. 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 ]

  5. List of The Canterbury Tales characters - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. 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.

  7. The Marriage of Sir Gawain - Wikipedia

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    The loathly lady episode itself dates at least back to Geoffrey Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales. [3] Unlike most of the Child Ballads, but like the Arthurian "King Arthur and King Cornwall" and "The Boy and the Mantle", "The Marriage of Sir Gawain" is not a folk ballad but a song for professional minstrels. [4]

  8. Ellesmere Chaucer - Wikipedia

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    Chaucer scholarship has long assumed that no manuscripts of the Tales exist dating from earlier than Chaucer's death in 1400. The Ellesmere manuscript, conventionally dated to the first decades of the fifteenth century, would therefore be one of the first extant manuscripts of the Tales. More recently, the manuscript has been dated to c. 1405 ...

  9. List of feminist literature - Wikipedia

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    The Book of the City of Ladies, Christine de Pisan (c. 1405) The Treasure of the City of Ladies, Christine de Pisan (c. 1405) [1] The Tale of Joan of Arc, Christine de Pisan (1429) [2] "The Wife of Bath's Tale", Geoffrey Chaucer