"The Wife of Bath's Tale" and prologue are among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. They give insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and are probably of interest to Chaucer himself, for the character is one of his most developed ones, with her prologue twice as long as her tale. He also goes so far as to describe two sets of clothing for her in his General Prologue.

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  • "The Wife of Bath's Tale" and prologue are among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. They give insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and are probably of interest to Chaucer himself, for the character is one of his most developed ones, with her prologue twice as long as her tale. He also goes so far as to describe two sets of clothing for her in his General Prologue. She holds her own among the bickering pilgrims, and evidence in the manuscripts suggests that although she was first assigned a different, plainer tale—perhaps the one told by the Shipman—she received her present tale as her significance increased. She calls herself both Alyson and Alys in the prologue, but to confuse matters these are also the names of her 'gossib' (a close friend or gossip), whom she mentions several times, as well as many female characters throughout The Canterbury Tales. The tale is not often regarded as the first of the so-called "marriage group" of tales, which includes the Clerk's, the Merchant's and the Franklin's tales. But some scholars contest this grouping, first proposed by Chaucer scholar George Lyman Kittredge, not least because the later tales of Melibee and the Nun's Priest also discuss this theme. A separation between tales that deal with moral issues and ones that deal with magical issues, as the Wife of Bath's does, is favoured by some scholars.
  • Il prologo e il racconto della Donna di Bath (The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale) è la sesta novella scritta da Geoffrey Chaucer all'interno dei Racconti di Canterbury. La Donna di Bath offre uno sguardo all'interno del ruolo della donna nel tardo medioevo ed è probabilmente di interesse per Chaucer stesso: è infatti uno dei personaggi maggiormente sviluppato all'interno della novella. Nell'inglese di Chaucer, "wife" non significa "moglie" come nell'inglese contemporaneo, ma deriva da "wif" che significa "donna".
  • The Wife of Bath's Tale en The Wife of Bath's Prologue behoren tot de bekendste verhalen uit The Canterbury Tales van Geoffrey Chaucer. Ze geven inzicht in de rol van de vrouw in de late middeleeuwen. The Wife of Bath is een van de meest uitgewerkte personages van Chaucer, met een proloog die twee keer zo lang is als haar verhaal zelf. Chaucer beschrijft zelfs twee sets van haar kledij in zijn General Prologue. Ze noemt zichzelf zowel Alisoun als Alys in de proloog, maar dat zijn ook de namen van haar beste vriendinnen, die ze verscheidene keren vermeldt. Het zijn tevens de namen van nog andere personages in The Canterbury Tales. Alisoun staat haar mannetje tussen de ruziënde pelgrims. Uit de manuscripten kan worden afgeleid, dat haar eerst een eenvoudiger verhaal werd toebedeeld - mogelijk het verhaal uit The Shipman's Tale - maar naarmate haar rol in 'The Canterbury Tales' prominenter werd, kreeg ze haar huidige verhaal. The Wife of Bath's Tale wordt vaak beschouwd als het eerste van de zogenaamde "marriage group", waartoe ook The Clerk's Tale, The Merchant's Tale en The Franklin's Tale behoren. Sommige onderzoekers betwisten deze groepering, die voor het eerst voorgesteld werd door Chaucer kenner George Lyman Kittredge, omdat de latere The Tale of Milibee en The Nun's Priest's Tale ook over dit thema gaan. Andere academici geven er de voorkeur aan een ander onderscheid te maken: verhalen die te maken hebben met morele kwesties, zoals The Wife of Bath's Tale, en verhalen die magische kwesties behandelen.
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  • "The Wife of Bath's Tale" and prologue are among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. They give insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and are probably of interest to Chaucer himself, for the character is one of his most developed ones, with her prologue twice as long as her tale. He also goes so far as to describe two sets of clothing for her in his General Prologue.
  • Il prologo e il racconto della Donna di Bath (The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale) è la sesta novella scritta da Geoffrey Chaucer all'interno dei Racconti di Canterbury. La Donna di Bath offre uno sguardo all'interno del ruolo della donna nel tardo medioevo ed è probabilmente di interesse per Chaucer stesso: è infatti uno dei personaggi maggiormente sviluppato all'interno della novella.
  • The Wife of Bath's Tale en The Wife of Bath's Prologue behoren tot de bekendste verhalen uit The Canterbury Tales van Geoffrey Chaucer. Ze geven inzicht in de rol van de vrouw in de late middeleeuwen. The Wife of Bath is een van de meest uitgewerkte personages van Chaucer, met een proloog die twee keer zo lang is als haar verhaal zelf. Chaucer beschrijft zelfs twee sets van haar kledij in zijn General Prologue.
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