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The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale Contents

  • Introduction
  • Timeline
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  • Author(s)
    • Chaucer, Geoffrey
      • The Chaucer family
      • Chaucer's early years
      • The effect of Chaucer's background
      • Chaucer's court career
  • Social / political context of The Wife of Bath
    • The medieval Canterbury Tales
    • The relationship between Church and society
    • Marriage in England in the fourteenth century
    • The reality of death
    • An era of social and economic change
  • Religious / philosophical context of The Wife of Bath
    • Medieval beliefs about sin and forgiveness
    • Pilgrims and pilgrimage
      • More on Thomas Becket
    • Astronomy and astrology
  • Literary context of The Wife of Bath
    • Other writers from Chaucer's time
    • Romance and courtly love
    • Medieval literary conventions
    • Chaucer's English
    • Chaucer's metre: Iambic pentameter
  • Narrative in Wife of Bath
    • Narrative - the way the story is told
      • More on Boccaccio and Ovid
    • The portrait of the Wife of Bath in The General Prologue
    • Language in The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
  • The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale synopses and commentary
    • The Prologue: introductory comments
      • Part one: l.1 'Experience' - l.76 'Cacche whoso may'
      • Part two: l.77 'But this word' - l.134 'To purge uryne'
      • Part three: l.135 'But if I seye noght' - l.162 ' Al this sentence'
      • Part four: l.163 'Up sterte' - l.192 'For myn entente'
      • Part five: l.193 'Now sires' - l.234 'Of hir assent'
      • Part six: l.235 'Sire old kanyard' - l.307 'I wol hym noght'
      • Part seven: l.308 'But tel me this' - l.378 'This know they'
      • Part eight: l.379 'Lordinges, right thus' - l.452 'Now wol I speken'
      • Part nine: l.453 'My forthe housebonde' - l.502 'He is now in the grave'
      • Part ten: l.503 'Now of my fifthe housebond' - l.542 'Had told to me'
      • Part eleven: l.543 'And so bifel' - l.584 'As wel of this'
      • Part twelve: l.585 'But now, sire' - l.626 'How poore'
      • Part thirteen: l.627 'What sholde I seye' - l.665 'I nolde noght'
      • Part fourteen: l.666 'Now wol I seye' - l.710 'That women kan'
      • Part fifteen: l.711 'But now to purpos' - l.771 'Somme han kem'
      • Part sixteen: l.772 'He spak moore' - l.828 'Now wol I seye'
      • Part seventeen: The after words l.829 'The frere lough' - l.856 'Yis dame, quod'
    • The Wife of Bath's Tale: Introductory comments
      • Part eighteen: l.857 'In the' olde days' - l.898 'To chese weither'
      • Part nineteen: l.899 'The queen thanketh' - l.949 'But that tale is nat'
      • Part twenty: l.952 'Pardee, we wommen' - l.1004 'These olde folk'
      • Part twenty-one: l.1005 'My leve mooder' - l.1072 'And taketh his olde wyf'
      • Part twenty-two: l.1073 'Now wolden som men' - l.1105 'Ye, certeinly'
      • Part twenty-three: l.1106 'Now sire, quod she' - l.1176 'To lyven vertuously'
      • Part twenty-four: l.1177 'And ther as ye' - l.1218 'I shal fulfille'he Holocaust and the creation of
      • Part twenty-five: l.1219 'Chese now' - l.1264 'God sende hem'
      • Reaction to the Wife's Tale
  • Characterisation in The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
    • The Wife of Bath within her Prologue
    • Characterisation within The Tale
    • Chaucer's use of humour
  • Themes and significant ideas in The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
    • Themes in The Wife of Bath's Tale
    • The struggle for power in The Wife of Bath's Prologue
    • The 'wo' that is in marriage
    • The portrayal of gender in The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
    • Desire and The Wife of Bath's Tale
    • Is there justice in The Wife of Bath's Tale
    • Social criticism in The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
    • Marriage and sexuality in The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
    • Mastery in The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
    • Debate, dispute and resolution in The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
    • Tale and teller in The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
  • Imagery and symbolism in The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
    • The significance of images
    • Birds, animals and insects
    • Bread, drink and cooking
    • Flowers and plants
    • Fire images
    • Commercial metaphors
  • Structure of The Wife of Bath
    • Form and structure in The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
    • Silences in The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
    • Chaucer's shaping of the prologue genre
    • The Wife of Bath's Tale as Romance
  • Critical approaches to The Wife of Bath
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    • An example of textual analysis
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