... throughout the ages have had diverse personalities, and their various behaviors are significantly depicted in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He tells of several women; two are among the travelers on the pilgrimage to Canterbury and the others are characters in numerous tales during the journey. The Wife of Bath, the old woman in the Wife of Bath's Tale, and Griselda, a character in the Clerk's Tale ... is an ideal illustration of an unrestrained and lewd woman of the fourteenth century (Moore 2000). She has been widowed five times and she is going on the pilgrimage to Canterbury t...

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