The Wife of Bath: A Biography

by Marion Turner

Book Overview

From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeToo

Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognizably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers--from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few literary characters have led such...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691206015
• ISBN13: 9780691206011
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.7" x 8.5"