(The) Wife of bath's prologue and tale / by Geoffrey Chaucer ; edited by Harriet Raghunathan

Introduction -- Chaucer's life -- Social Change in the 14th century -- Introduction to the wife of bath's tale -- Note on Chaucer's language -- Note on the text -- The wife of bath's prologue and tale -- Sources and backgrounds -- From the general prologue / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Gentilesse / Geoffrey Chaucer -- From the Parson's tale : the remedy against lechery / Geoffrey Chaucer -- From the tale of Florent / John Gower -- From the golden book on marriage / Theophrastus -- From against Jovinian / St. Jerome -- From St Paul to the Corinthians / The Bible -- From St Paul to the Ephesians / The Bible -- From St Paul to Timothy 1 / The Bible -- From the Gospel according to St John / The Bible -- From the Roman De la Rose / Jean De Meun -- From the letter of Valerius to Rufinus against marrying a wife / Walter Map -- CRITICAL ESSAYS : Introduction -- D.W. Robertson, Jr. Chaucer's Exegetes -- The wife of bath and the painting of lions / Mary Carruthers -- Alison's incapacity and poetic instability in the wife of bath's tale / Susan Crane -- Alisoun Looms / Peggy Knapp -- The wife of bath's tale / Peter Brown and Andrew Butcher