Chaucer's Wife of Bath

A thorough and well-designed resource for older learners, this lesson focuses on Chaucer's character the Wife of Bath from his classic novel, The Canterbury Tales. As a way of understanding Chaucer's complex characterization and rhetoric, this resource incorporates primary source documents about women and marriage in an attempt to explore the essential question, "Is the Wife of Bath the object of satire, the instrument of its delivery, or perhaps a combination of both?"

Concepts

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characterization, characters, the canterbury tales, geoffrey chaucer, primary source analysis, primary sources, british literature, literature, women's history

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characterization, chaucer, English, english literature, middle english, the canterbury tales, women's history, primary source documents, wife of bath, literature, world history. lecture, english language arts

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Resource Details

Grade

11th - Higher Ed

Subjects

English Language Arts

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Resource Type

Lesson Plans

Audience

For Teacher Use

Duration

5 days

Instructional Strategies

Modeling

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Usage Permissions

Creative Commons

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