Full Description
Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. This stunning full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer series explores the complete text of The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale through a wide range of classroom-tested activities and illustrated information, including a map of the Canterbury pilgrimage, a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words and suggestions for study. Cambridge School Chaucer makes medieval life and language more accessible, helping students appreciate Chaucer's brilliant characters, his wit, sense of irony and love of controversy.
Contents
Introduction; What are the Canterbury Tales?; Chaucer's language; The Wife of Bath's contribution; Text and notes: The portrait of the Wife of Bath (from The General Prologue); The Wife of Bath's prologue; The Wife of Bath's tale; The tale told by the Wife of Bath; Chaucer's pilgrims; Pilgrims and pilgrimages; Geoffrey Chaucer; Marriage or virginity?; The status of women in the fourteenth century; The role of the Church; Themes in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale; Glossary of frequently used words
