Chaucer, "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale"
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1. What values are important, according to the "old wife" in the tale told by the Wife of Bath? (NOTE: I am not referring to the Wife of Bath herself, but to the old woman in the tale told by the Wife of Bath.) How do these conform to the values of the medieval (Arthurian) romance? Does the Wife of Bath herself hold the same values?
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