The classic respected series in a stunning new design. This edition of The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale from the highly-respected Selected Tales series includes the full, complete text in the original Middle English, along with an in-depth introduction by James Winny, detailed notes and a comprehensive glossary.

 

This book is part of a book series called Selected Tales From Chaucer .

This book has been graded for interest at 16+ years.

There are 154 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Cambridge University Press .

Geoffrey Chaucer , known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.

This book has the following chapters: Introduction; Some notes on Chaucer's usage of Middle English; Note on the text; The Portrait of the Wife of Bath; The Wife of Bath's Prologue; The Wife of Bath's Tale; Notes; Appendix 1: Chaucer's Ballade of Gentillesse; Notes to Appendix 1; Appendix 2: Theophrastus on Marriage; Glossary.