Wife of Bath Links

 

Wife of Bath’s Prologue—Ellesmere MS

Wife of Bath’s Tale—Ellesmere MS (2)

Wife of Bath’s Portrait-- MS CUL Gg.4.27

I Corinthians 7

Other Sources of the Wife of Bath’s Prologue

Glossing (1) (2)

Who Painted the Lion?

Epilogue to the Man of Law’s Tale

Analogues (Tale of Florent / Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell)

Gower’s Gloss to the Tale of Florent

Gower’s Context for Florent

Chaucer and Cecily Champain

Chaucer’s Gentilesse” (a “Moral Balade”)

Gentilesse” in Chaucer’s Boece

Wife of Bath in the Norton Anthology: 3rd ed. (1975); 6th ed. (1993)

Some critical remarks

 

Summoner’s Tale images: Virgin of Mercy / Pentecost