Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Tale:

The Canterbury Tales recounts the stories told by pilgrims to one another as they make their way from London to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury. This volume contains the Wife of Bath's Tale - a story which despite its bawdy reputation, tells a profoundly tragic tale of how women were treated in thirteenth century England. Indeed, many consider that Alison speaks with a voice that is shockingly relevant to the lives of some modern women.
The facing page contains Chaucer's origi...