Category: The Canterbury Tales

The Wife of Baths prologue and tale are passages taken out of the Satire book The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer. The comical burlesque is a collection of twenty-four stories, written in Middle English between 1387 and 1400, where a competition is being held for who has the best story. The Wife of Baths…

The Canterbury Tales may be a fictional tale of a pilgrimage to Canterbury, but it also discusses the corruption of the institution of the Catholic Church that was prevalent during the 14th century. He also uses the book to show greed in its many forms, whether seen in the agents of the Church or in…

The General Prologue includes twenty-four portraits, each varying in description, lengths, and details. It is through the conversations of Chaucer-pilgrim with the various sojourners that we, the audience, make acquaintance with them. We are thus presented with the first act of reading in The Canterbury Tales. On that account, we need to recognize the act…

The General Prologue, more than anything else, offers the modern reader a window into medieval society. Discuss, from your reading of the prologue, what problems appear to affect English society in the late fourteenth century, using evidence from the text. Through the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer in The General Prologue we peer into the lives…

The Wife of Baths prologue and tale are passages taken out of the Satire book The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer. The comical burlesque is a collection of twenty-four stories, written in Middle English between 1387 and 1400, where a competition is being held for who has the best story. The Wife of Baths…