The Canterbury Tales

Let's Get Medieval.

Picture of Chaucer


The Wife of Bath


Watch Joanna Quinn's adaptation of this timeless tale!

The Wife of Bath could easy be argued to be a proto-feminist and proto-queer character. Married five times and wealthy from collecting her dead husbands' assets, we have t wonder: is she a proto-sugar baby too?

Whatever her labels, she is fierce with a witty tongue and definitely what the youngsters are calling "sex-positive".

Want to read her tale, but don't know Middle English? See Harvard's interlinear translation!