1. Review of Miller’s Tale The Miller “quits” the Knight – Dramatic interaction, content, genre – Estates satire/social dynamic Peasant’s Rebellion 1381

2. The Wife of Bath Her Portrait Her Prologue – Let’s divide into two parts Lines 1-168 Lines 199-834

3. Wife of Bath GP Portrait Line 447

5. Lines 199-834 The 5 Husbands The Three “Good Husbands” – l. 410; The Revelour (#4) l. 487 Jankyn and the Book of Wikked Wyves (#5) l. 509

6. Book of Wikked Wyves Line 672 ff. Valerian and Theophrastus Anti-Feminist tradition

7. Lines 1-168 The Wife as Exegete The Wife is Fiction Exegesis Experience vs. Authority Sovereignty

8. Wife as Text Wife is made up from other texts Palimpsest

10. Wife as Text Wife is made up from other texts Palimpsest Line 475 – (taken from La Vieille in Roman de la Rose)

11. Wife as Exegete l. 149 1 Corinthians 7:4 “For the wife does not rule over her own body, but the husband does, likewise the husband does not rule over his own body, but the wife does”

12. Whose “Fantasy” is this? Arthurian Romance Parallels between Prologue and Tale

13. The Wife as Text Antifeminist nightmare? Who speaks for “woman”? l. 698

14. Raptus What is the relationship between teller and tale? What does “woman” want? Parallel endings to Pro (l. 817 ff) and Tale (l. 1256 ff)

15. Raptus The case of Cecily Champaign