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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[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.

Show more Chaucer's widow and clothmaker is one of three characters given a longer confessional voice than other pilgrims in his Canterbury Tales and ... author of The Wife of Bath: A Biography ...