The Wife of Bath was dreamed up by Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales more than 600 years ago. She has captured countless imaginations since. The character known for her lusty appetites ...

THE WIFE OF BATH: A Biography, by Marion Turner Of all the tales Chaucer’s pilgrims tell around the table at the Tabard Inn, it is the Wife of Bath’s that has most riotously escaped the Middle ...

I am familiar with the Wife of Bath from my previous study of Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,” in which she is one of the 29 pilgrims on their way to Canterbury. She is described in the General ...

It doesn’t matter if you’ve ever read Geoffrey Chaucer’s medieval classic “The Canterbury Tales.” Over the centuries, the Wife of Bath has been swinging her hips through Western culture ...

the Wife of Bath goes through an insanely long prologue before she gets to her tale, basically talking about her husbands and her sexual adventures. In this, she talks about how she'll only put up ...

[email protected] received funding from The Leverhulme Trust for her work on the Wife of Bath. Chaucer’s Wife of Bath is one of the most famous characters in English literature.

is a high-spirited take on Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath”, one of the 24 stories in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. The Canterbury Tales tells the story of a group of 31 pilgrims who ...

The Journal of English and Germanic Philology Vol. 24, No. 4, Oct., 1925 A Conjecture on the Wife of Bath's Prolo... A Conjecture on the Wife of Bath's Prologue This is the metadata section. Skip to ...

the writer’s stage debut is “The Wife of Willesden,” an adaptation of the Wife of Bath’s tale set and staged in the British capital. By Desiree Ibekwe LONDON — Zadie Smith grew up around ...

Novelist Zadie Smith (”White Teeth”) has adroitly adapted Chaucer’s 14th-century “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” from “The Canterbury Tales,” transporting the action from the medieval ...