The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Prologue Characters

With her Prologue, the Wife of Bath continues the characterization we've already gotten from her portrait in the General Prologue. There we learned that she was a nicely-dressed, largish woman with...

Jankyn, the Wife's fifth husband, is a total departure from her usual marital appetite because he is young, poor, and extremely difficult to dominate. Jankyn is a clerk, or educated person, and in...

Husband #4 gets a separate description from the Wife's first three husbands because, apparently, he does not bow to the Wife quite as easily. Instead, he keeps a lover, a situation which necessitat...

What little we know about Husbands 1, 2, and 3 comes from things the Wife tells us about them, so we can't actually analyze their characters, but only the Wife's description of their characters. Ac...