Chaucer (Part 3 of 3): The Wife of Bath
Channel: Eric Luttrell
Date: 2017-04-23

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.