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Wife of Bath (Fictitious character) --- Ballads, English

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Wife of Bath (Fictitious character). --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Sources.

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"From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeToo Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognizably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers-from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few literary characters have led such colourful lives or matched her influence or capacity for reinvention in poetry, drama, fiction, and film. In The Wife of Bath, Marion Turner tells the fascinating story of where Chaucer's favourite character came from, how she related to real medieval women, and where her many travels have taken her since the fourteenth century, from Falstaff and Molly Bloom to #MeToo and Black Lives Matter. A sexually active and funny working woman, the Wife of Bath, also known as Alison, talks explicitly about sexual pleasure. She is also a victim of domestic abuse who tells a story of rape and redemption. Formed from misogynist sources, she plays with stereotypes. Turner sets Alison's fictional story alongside the lives of real medieval women-from a maid who travelled around Europe, abandoned her employer, and forged a new career in Rome to a duchess who married her fourth husband, a teenager, when she was sixty-five. Turner also tells the incredible story of Alison's post-medieval life, from seventeenth-century ballads and Polish communist pop art to her reclamation by postcolonial Black British women writers. Entertaining and enlightening, funny and provocative, The Wife of Bath is a one-of-a kind history of a literary and feminist icon who continues to capture the imagination of readers"--

Wife of Bath (Fictitious character) --- Women in literature. --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Thematology --- Chaucer, Geoffrey --- Women in literature --- Characters.

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Arthurian romances --- Arthurian romances --- Knights and knighthood in literature --- Man-woman relationships in literature --- Marriage in literature --- Rape in literature --- Wife of Bath (Fictitious character) --- Wife of Bath (Fictitious character) --- Women in literature --- History and criticism --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Characters --- Wife of Bath. --- Characters --- Women.

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In volume 1 of Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves (Georgia, 1997), Ralph Hanna and Traugott Lawler presented authoritative versions of three medieval texts invoked by Jankyn (fifth husband of the Wife of Bath) in The Canterbury Tales . In Jankyn's Book , volume 2, Lawler and Hanna revisit one of those texts by way of presenting all the known contemporary commentaries on it. The text is Walter Map's ""Dissuasio Valerii,"" that is, ""The Letter of Valerius to His Friend Ruffinus, Dissuading Him from Marrying."" Included in Jankyn's Book, volume 2, are seven commentaries on ""Dissuasio Valerii,"" edit.

Wife of Bath (Fictitious character). --- Tales, Medieval --- Satire, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Satire, Latin --- Misogyny --- Married women --- Marriage --- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern). --- Latin satire, Medieval and modern --- Latin wit and humor, Medieval and modern --- Medieval and modern Latin manuscripts --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Married people --- Women --- Wives --- Women-hating --- Misanthropy --- Sexual animosity --- Medieval tales --- Bath, Wife of (Fictitious character) --- Sources. --- Translations into English. --- History and criticism. --- Humor. --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Chaucer, Jeffrey, --- Chʻiao-sou, Chieh-fu-lei, --- Chieh-fu-lei Chʻiao-sou, --- Choser, Dzheffri, --- Choser, Zheoffreĭ, --- Cosvr, Jvoffrvi, --- Tishūsar, Zhiyūfrī, --- Characters --- Wife of Bath. --- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)