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Dreamed up by Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales more than 600 years ago, the Wife of Bath was known for her lusty appetites, gossipy asides and fondness for wine.
A festive parade that takes crowds back to the Middle Ages is celebrating its 10th year. With historical links to the likes ...
A new book traces the “biography” of Geoffrey Chaucer’s most enduring character and her impact on the course of English literature.
As a youth, Chaucer was captured and ransomed for £16—the modern equivalent of about £8000, or nearly $10,000.
So in his Prioresse’s Tale Geoffrey Chaucer ended his version of one of the best-known stories of the Middle Ages.
Joan Acocella writes on Marion Turner’s “The Wife of Bath: A Biography,” which surveys the “Canterbury Tales” character’s literary influence and the lives of women in Chaucer’s time.
You may have read Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" in a high school English literature class, but the poet is also thought to be the source of our modern ideas about Valentine's Day ...