The title is dedicated and reminiscent of the two blog posts preceding mine. They were quite enjoyable, you should read them. (Short and sweet too!)
I did find this Wife of 'Bath' lacking in her knowledge. Not only was her reasoning flawed (as previously mentioned by others) but her knowledge itself is quite awful. She tells the wrong story of King Midus, it was his hairdresser he told about his donkey ears not his wife, and I believe she refuses to tell the end because she herself is not sure of what it is. At first I thought maybe Chaucer had a differing version of Ovid's myths, but now I'm pretty sure he was trying to convey the lack of knowledge in Mrs. Wife.
commented on Mary Kate's.
I think it was a pretty great strategy on Chaucer's part to use something as simple as the mistelling of a well known story to illustrate the ignorance of a character.
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