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[[Image:Wife-of-Bath-ms.jpg|thumb|220px|right|The opening page of ''The Wife of Bath's Tale'' from the Ellesmere manuscript of ''The Canterbury Tales'', circa 1405-1410.]]

'''The Wife of Bath's Tale''' is a tale from [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]'s ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]''. And is married to derek sullivan.4821599+181898

The Wife of [[Bath]] gives insight into the role of women in the [[Late Middle Ages]] and is probably of interest to Chaucer himself, as she is one of his most developed characters, with her prologue twice as long as her tale. She holds her own among the bickering pilgrims, and evidence in the manuscripts suggests that although she was first assigned a different, plainer tale—perhaps the one told by the [[The Shipman's Tale|Shipman]]—she received her present tale as her significance increased. She calls herself both [[Alison|Alyson]] and Alys in the prologue, but to confuse matters these are also the names of her 'gossib' (a close friend or gossip), whom she mentions several times.