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

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The first feminist edition of these two tales. Wynne-Davies addresses the social and cultural context of the poems' production in a critical commentary to the texts. Also includes a line by line gloss and a historical introduction.

Wife of Bath (Fictitious character) --- Bath, Wife of (Fictitious character) --- CHAUCER (GEOFFREY), d. 1400 --- CANTERBURY TALES --- THE CLERK --- THE WIFE OF BATH --- CLERK, THE --- WIFE OF BATH, THE

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

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One of Chaucer's most popular and complex characters, the Wife of Bath has inspired a rich and diverse range of published scholarship. This work is the latest in the University of Toronto Press's Chaucer Bibliographies series, a series which aims to provide annotated bibliographies for all of Chaucer's works, and summarizes twentieth-century commentary on the Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. There are six sections to the bibliography, with items arranged chronologically in each section: editions and translations, sources and analogues, the marriage group, gentillesse or nobility, the General Prologue, the Wife of Bath's Prologue and the actual Tale.The editors have assembled a comprehensive bibliography covering not only standard English literature, medieval studies, and Chaucerian studies sources, but also less well-known references and items published in languages other than English. Developments in Chaucer criticism are traced and grouped thematically, a particular benefit for those approaching Chaucerian studies for the first time.

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature --- Tales, Medieval --- Wife of Bath (Fictitious character) --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. --- Bath, Wife of (Fictitious character) --- Medieval tales --- History and criticism --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Bibliography. --- Wife of Bath's tale. --- Wife of Bath's tale (Chaucer, Geoffrey) --- Wyves tale of Bathe (Chaucer, Geoffrey) --- Wife of Bath's prologue and tale (Chaucer, Geoffrey) --- Wife of Bath's prologue & tale from the Canterbury tales (Chaucer, Geoffrey)

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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.