English Literature / Unit 4 ENL 0310 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Wife of Bath's Prologue
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The idea
The Wife of Bath has had five husbands at the church door and has been to Jerusalem three times. Her prologue opens on experience against authority, and recounts how her fifth husband, Jankin, struck her deaf over a book, until she won "the sovereignty."
In practice
Experience against authority; five husbands.
Where people slip
She argues from life, against the books.
Your place on the trail
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