"The Wife of Bath's Tale" (Middle English: The Tale of the Wyf of Bathe) is among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It provides insight...

interactions with the Devil. It is preceded by The Wife of Bath's Tale and followed by The Summoner's Tale. On the way to extort money from a widow, the Summoner...

the tales proceeded as follows: The Miller's Tale > The Reeve's Tale > The Cook's Tale > Sir Thopas > The Wife of Bath's Tale > The Merchant's Tale >...

medieval literature, most famously in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale. The motif is that of a woman who appears unattractive (ugly, loathly) but...

well as "The Miller's Tale", "The Summoner's Tale", "The Wife of Bath's Tale", and "The Merchant's Tale". "The Tale of Sir Topas" was also filmed and...

The Wife of Bath is a character in "The Wife of Bath's Tale". Wife of Bath may also refer to: The Wife of Bath (play), a 1713 play by John Gay The Wife...

to the custom in the Wife of Bath's Tale suggests that it was only the husband, whereas in Piers Plowman it seems as though both husband and wife are...

the writer Eric. Plater adapted five of the original stories: the Miller's Tale, the Wife of Bath's tale, the Reeve's Tale, the Knight's Tale and the...

of the "loathly lady" story popular during the Middle Ages. An earlier version of the story appears as "The Wyfe of Bayths Tale" ("The Wife of Bath's Tale")...

The Pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer are the main characters in the framing narrative of the book. In addition, they can be considered...

Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Tale John Wycliffe's handwritten Bible, late 14th century Fleuron by Robert Granjon, who pioneered the style, printed...

Chaucer, in "The Wife of Bath's Tale", mentioned a woman named 'Lucia' who murdered her husband. He wrote: Of Livia told he me, and of Lucy. They bothè...

The Second Coming (ITV); David Morrissey — State of Play (BBC One) Best Actress Winner: Julie Walters — The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Tale...

Guenevere; the Cailleach Bhéirre; Medb; Rhiannon; warrior women such as the Morrígan, Macha and Badb; and the loathly lady of Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale have...

work The Canterbury Tales has been cited as an instance of the prominent use of Jungian archetypes. The Wife of Bath's Tale in particular within the larger...

variant form of Alison. It may refer to: Two of The Canterbury Pilgrims: A character in The Wife of Bath's Tale A character in The Miller's Tale A character...

The Wife of Bath is a 1713 comedy play by the British writer John Gay. It was inspired by The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer. The play marked...

that he may have her if he makes the rocks on the coast of Brittany disappear. Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale": the main character, a young rapist knight...

Gala Performance of William Shakespeare's King Lear at the Old Vic in London, with Ackland in the role of Lear. Ackland and his wife Rosemary (née Kirkcaldy)...

Examples of sexual innuendo and double-entendre occur in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (14th century), in which the Wife of Bath's Tale is laden...

Tale, the Prioress' Tale, the Clerk's Tale, and the Second Nun's Tale, and in a number of shorter lyrics. He may have adapted the form from a French ballade...

Shippey's view, Tolkien is telling the literal truth that "beauty is itself dangerous", as Chaucer did in The Wife of Bath's Tale where both elves and friars...

is spent on her talking to the people in the pub, in much the way that the Wife of Bath's prologue is longer than the tale itself. To her, Alvita's voice...

known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He was the first...

$5". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 January 2023. Chisholm, Anne (20 December 1997). "Obituary: Daphne Fielding: The wife of Bath's tale". The Guardian...

the following order: General Prologue The Knight's Tale The Miller's Tale The Reeve's Tale The Cook's Tale The Wife of Bath’s Tale The Friar's Tale The...

of The Knight's Tale from the Ellesmere Manuscript The opening page of The Wife of Bath's Tale from the Ellesmere Manuscript of The Canterbury Tales,...

form the basis for The Manciple's Tale. The story of Midas (Book XI 174–193) is referred to and appears—though much altered—in The Wife of Bath's Tale. The...

of Bath's Tale, for example, Geoffrey Chaucer retells Diogenes' story of Xanthippe pouring a water-jug over Socrates' head, though in his version the jug...

(UK ed.) – an adaptation of Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale" Miranty and the Alchemist (1983) ISBN 0-233-98042-3 (UK ed.) The Enchantresses (1998), by...