Wife of Bath- Critic Quotes- AO3 4.5 / 5 based on 13 ratings ? English LiteratureThe Wife of Bath's Prologue and TaleA2/A-levelOCR Created by: RosieCreated on: 10-05-14 15:04 Nicole Smith "The Wife of Bath embodies a number of negative female characteristics...stupidity, arrogance and deceitfulness" 1 of 11 Mark Williams "The Wife reduces human love and sex to business transactions" 2 of 11 Christine Tucker "The Wife of Bath is an exceptionally strong woman who takes full advantage of the power of her sexuality" 3 of 11 Christine Tucker "Her greatest unhappiness comes in moments when her power or 'maistrie' is being threatened" 4 of 11 Rebecca Marsland "The Wife of Bath offers a tale that ultimately champions marriage" 5 of 11 Karen Alkalay-Gut "Alisoun is both intelligent and morally corrupt" 6 of 11 J Tasioulas "The misogynistic tales are turned inside out" 7 of 11 Michael Gregory "It is the Wife's mask of love that gains her all that she desires" 8 of 11 Anna Caughey "play becomes a textual smokescreen for Chaucer himself" 9 of 11 Mark Wiliams "Socially upwardly mobile" 10 of 11 Fiskin "The widow looking for another husband is standard in comedy; in the English literary tradition, she is best represented by Chaucer's Wife of Bath" 11 of 11
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