How is “Wife of Bath” a frame story in the Canterbury’s Tale?
Question by Michael: How is “Wife of Bath” a frame story in the Canterbury’s Tale?
How is “Wife of Bath” a frame story in the Canterbury’s Tale?
I know what a frame story is, a story within a story, but can someone explain how Wife of Bath is a frame story? I think it has to do something with the Knight but I’m not too sure. Thanks!
Best answer:
Answer by stopadeeboomba
It sets up the tone for the rest of the story, a kind of cautionary tale, a morality tale not to behave like her or bad things will happen. Yet, these things do happen in the rest of the Tales, so…there you go.
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The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
Study Guides:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/canterbury/section10.rhtml
http://pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCanterbury48.asp
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/The-Canterbury-Tales-Summary-and-Analysis-The-Wife-of-Bath-s-Prologue-and-Tale.id-52,pageNum-44.html
“The Wife of Bath’s Tale” and its prologue are among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. They give insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and are probably of interest to Chaucer himself, for the character is one of his most developed ones, with her prologue twice as long as her tale. He also goes so far as to describe two sets of clothing for her in his General Prologue. She holds her own among the bickering pilgrims, and evidence in the manuscripts suggests that although she was first assigned a different, plainer tale—perhaps the one told by the Shipman—she received her present tale as her significance increased. She calls herself both Alyson and Alys in the prologue, but to confuse matters these are also the names of her ‘gossib’ (a close friend or gossip), whom she mentions several times, as well as many female characters throughout The Canterbury Tales.
The tale is often regarded as the first of the so-called “marriage group” of tales, which includes the Clerk’s, the Merchant’s and the Franklin’s tales. But some scholars contest this grouping, first proposed by Chaucer scholar George Lyman Kittredge, not least because the later tales of Melibee and the Nun’s Priest also discuss this theme. A separation between tales that deal with moral issues and ones that deal with magical issues, as the Wife of Bath’s does, is favoured by some scholars.
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http://www.bookrags.com/notes/ct/
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/canterbury/
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-52.html
http://www.novelguide.com/thecanterburytales/index.html
http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCanterbury02.asp
http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/canterbury
http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/cntrtal.asp
http://www.bookwolf.com/Free_Booknotes/Canterbury_Tales_by_Geoffrey_C/canterbury_tales_by_geoffrey_c.html