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Wife of Bath well-endowed, lusty teller of tales. [Br. Lit.: Canterbury Tales] See : Buxomness Wife of Bath many marriages form theme of her tale. [Br. Lit.: Canterbury Tales, “Wife of Bath’s Tale] See : Marriage How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This week, Julie Walters and Bill Nighy deconstruct the Wife of Bath as a show-biz parable. Ginsberg's nuanced final section asserts that Chaucer's Clerk becomes si multaneously "the first English Petrarchist and his first English critic" (265), finding furthermore that Chaucer, who learned of the Griselda story "from Petrarch at Padua[,] is never more Boccaccian than when he introduces Griselda of Saluzzo to the Wife of Bath on the toad to Canterbury" (268). The Wife of Bath is coarse, lusty, nagging, and indiscriminate in her taste for men. |
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