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The Canterbury Tales Critical Essay #4
In the following essay excerpt, Williams examines how the Wife of Bath wields her own version of experience and authority in telling her tale.
Whatever may be the interpretation she places on
the "Miller's Tale," the Wife of Bath must have enjoyed it thoroughly.
Her own prologue and tale are similar exercises in turning everything upside
down, but with the Wife of Bath, Chaucer seems to be exploring similar
questions under a different theme, a theme that the Wife herself identifies as
experience and authority as alternative means of understanding the truth. In
his important study Chaucerian Fiction, Robert Burlin has shown the
central importance of this theme in all of Chaucer's work, but nowhere is it
as explicitly addressed as in the "Wife...
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