Category: Wife of Bath

Based upon England’s medieval era, the Canterbury Tales, one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s most popular works contains 24 stories or as people like to call them satires, based upon corruption, problems and stereotypes that occured back in the late 14th century. One of the most acclaimed stories within the Canterbury Tales is the tale of the…

In both The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine De Pizan and Wife of Bath by Geoffery Chaucer, the female protagonists show their power by behaving in ways typically displayed by men. In this essay, I will argue that both women in these stories are powerful in the way that they possess traits…

Annotated Bibliography Mead analyses how out of all the prologues the most notable for wit and originality is the Prologue of the Wife of Baths Tale [as] nothing exactly like it had been seen before and nothing exactly like it has been seen since. Despite its long length with only 4 lines less than the…