In her new book, The Wife of Bath: A Biography, Marion Turner argues that Chaucer's pilgrim, whose given name is Alison, is the first modern character in all of English literature.
The Wife of Bath was dreamed up by Geoffrey Chaucer inThe character known for her lusty appetites, gossipy asides and fondness for wine has influenced authors, artists and musicians over the century ranging from William Shakespeare to the Brazilian Tropicália composer Tom Zé's catchy song,"A Mulher de Bath.", an English professor at Oxford University."She's aware of when she's saying things that are outrageous.
"She has been married five times, she has worked in the cloth industry, she has traveled all over the known world at that time," Turner points out. Unlike the queens and witches who preceded her in English literature, Alison is not a flat allegorical figure. Her ordinariness makes her radical. "She tells us about domestic abuse. She tells us about rape. She tells us about what it's like to live in a society where women are comprehensively silenced," Turner says.
It might seem strange to write a biography of a made-up character. But Turner, who previously wrote a
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