Marion Turner’s The Wife of Bath a biography is a thrilling follow-up to her major biography of Geoffrey Chaucer, placing the fictional character in her literary and cultural context, and then looking at her many and persistent ‘afterlives’ through history.
Read MoreAn audio interview with the late Professor Terry Dolan about the Middle English poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
Read MoreZadie Smith’s The Wife of Willesden is a lively and enjoyable drama, bringing Chaucer’s Wife of Bath into the twenty-first century.
Read MorePatience Agbabi’s 2014 Telling Tales is a vibrant updating of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and itself a masterclass in poetic form and tone.
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