Swindling and Swinking – The Wife of Bath and the Unbound Text
Sunday, April 25th, 2004By Kamal Fox Who can control the Wife of Bath? In the portrait presented in the General Prologue, the Wife of Bath seems larger-than-life. We read of her “ten pound” kerchiefs (l. 454), her red stockings (l. 456), her five husbands (l. 460), and her hat that is as broad as a shield (l. 470-71). [...]