It is about a soldier and an old women who chooses to be beauty in the day and ugly at night...does anyone remember who is the teller of the tale?
2006-07-09 04:55:33 · 5 answers · asked by BritLdy 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I know Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales, but was it the who was the story teller?
2006-07-09 05:05:47 · update #1
The narrator is the five-times married Wife of Bath. Married five times "apart from other company in youth. No need to speak of that just now, forsooth."
Her tale deals with a convicted rapist who faces execution unless he can find what women want most. Turns out that what women really want is to be masters of their men. Big surprise there!
Anyway, a great story, and it surprises many readers to know that Chaucer wrote it before the year 1400.
2006-07-09 18:10:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Geoffrey Chaucer 1343-1400
2006-07-09 12:03:13 · answer #2 · answered by Conservative 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale,"
The tale, itself, is an Arthurian romance, typified by its knight errant protagonist, its quest to answer a question, and its plot movement between court and forest. It also resembles Breton lais, the short romances originating in Brittany which often featured supernatural characters and characters whose criminal behavior was corrected by unusual justice ("Eliduc," "Sir Gowther," "Bisclavret," "Launfal," etc.). Chaucer probably knew of several analogues of this tale of the knight whose mistress gives him a difficult choice, and others which involved rapist knights. But in none of the analogues is the choice between a wife foul and faithful or fair and faithless. (In the sources, she must either be fair by day and ugly by night or ugly by day and fair at night.)
2006-07-09 13:43:43 · answer #3 · answered by johnslat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its the wife of bath's tale
2006-07-10 07:02:16 · answer #4 · answered by ramesh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont remember, is it chaucer?
2006-07-09 11:58:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋