Canterbury Tales Wife Of Bath
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Canterbury Tales: Wife of Bath
Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London in 1340 (Fuller 12). Geoffrey
Chaucer's fortunes were closely bound with these of John Of Gaunt, the
son-in-law to the Earl of Derby (Fuller 12). Around the year 1380,
Geoffrey Chaucer was charged with rape by a woman named Ce ....
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.... the most valuable of women. The wife of bath
cannot resist telling her companions about all of her sexual
experiences. She has had five husbands. Her husbands fell into two
categories. The first category of husbands was: rich, but also old and
unable to fulfill her demands, sexually that is. The other husbands
were sexually vigorous, but harder to control. The first three were
rich, old, and jealous. She tamed them by accusing them of promiscuous
behavior, that she h ....
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