The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Prologue Resources

This website collects lots of great resources on the Wife of Bath, including study guides, modern news items, and links to images.

This modern adaptation of the Wife of Bath's Prologue has the Wife of Bath as a fifty-three-year-old television actress and multiple divorcée who starts up a relationship with a much younger man when her husband leaves her.

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.

This is an image of the Wife of Bath from Cambridge Manuscript GG 4.27.

Watch the BBC's modern adaptation of the "Wife of Bath" on YouTube.

Marie Boroff reads lines 1-22 of the Wife's Prologue aloud in Middle English.

John Farrell reads the Wife of Bath's Portrait from the General Prologue.

The Chaucer Theater presents The Wife of Bath. Here's an audio clip sample from their website.

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.

This is a helpful glossary of Middle English terms often used in Chaucer. The 100 most common words are denoted by an asterisk.