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 ...

Normally, the tale is the main event, but the Wife of Bath’s tale is dwarfed by the unstoppable monologue that precedes it, in which she tells us her views on marriage. What We’re Reading ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), John Dryden rendered ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale’ in contemporary English, ‘not daring … to adventure on her prologue, because ’tis too licentious’. Voltaire took ...

Chaucer’s Wife of Bath is one of the most famous characters in English literature. Since appearing in the Canterbury tales in 1387, her tale has been rewritten and adapted by authors from the French ...

We know this from the character of the Wife of Bath - one of the most vividly drawn of all the pilgrims in the Canterbury tales. Susan Hitch at Oxford University has been talking to Emma Jane ...

“The Wife of Willesden,” which opened Thursday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, is surprisingly faithful to Chaucer’s original “The Wife of Bath ... her actual tale, a fable ...

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 ...