The Wife of Bath: Complete, Authoritative Text With Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical . (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)

Chaucer, Geoffrey Geoffrey Chaucer,

ISBN 10: 0312142013 / ISBN 13: 9780312142018

Published by Bedford/st Martins -, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Wife of Bath: Complete, Authoritative Text With Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical . (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
• Publisher: Bedford/st Martins -
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312142013
• ISBN 13: 9780312142018
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The Wyves Tale of Bathe and prologue are among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. They give insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and are 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. She holds her own among the bickering pilgrims, and evidence in the manuscripts suggests that although she was first assigned a different, plainer tale-

About the Author

Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London in about 1342. He was valued highly by Edward III, who paid part of his ransom when he was captured fighting in France in 1360. He rose in royal employment, becoming a Justice of the Peace and was buried in 1400 in Westminster Abbey.