Websites
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Movies or TV Productions
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Historical Documents
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This is an image of the first page of the Wife of Bath's tale from the Ellesmere manuscript, widely considered to be the most beautiful of the Chaucer manuscripts.
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This is an image of the Wife of Bath from Cambridge Manuscript GG 4.27.
Video
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Audio
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Marie Boroff reads lines 1-22 of the Wife's Prologue aloud in Middle English.
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John Farrell reads the Wife of Bath's Portrait from the General Prologue.
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The Chaucer Theater presents The Wife of Bath. Here's an audio clip sample from their website.
Resources to Help Students Learn Middle English
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This page, provided by Harvard, offers ten lessons that start with a general explanation of the principles of Middle English pronunciation and move on to actual practice with the tales themselves.
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This is a helpful glossary of Middle English terms often used in Chaucer. The 100 most common words are denoted by an asterisk.