Eric Luttrell | Chaucer (Part 3 of 3): The Wife of Bath @ericluttrell | Uploaded April 2017 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
This is the third and last lecture about Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. In it, I describe the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale as framed narratives embedded within the larger Canterbury Tales and describe the consequences of this recursive embedding on the act of interpretive reading, especially when one or more of the embedded narrators is shown to be unreliable.
This is the third and last lecture about Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. In it, I describe the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale as framed narratives embedded within the larger Canterbury Tales and describe the consequences of this recursive embedding on the act of interpretive reading, especially when one or more of the embedded narrators is shown to be unreliable.
