## Task 3: The Wife of Bath's Tale

Read the extract from the The Wife of Bath's prologue in your Poems and Extracts reader.

1. How is the Wife of Bath characterized in this extract?

Read the Wife of Bath's Tale.

2. What is the role of women in this tale? Explain your answer by referring to the story itself.

3. How does the role of women in this story compare to the role of women in the Old English period and Middle English period (see information in Reader periods)?

4. Does this story suit its teller, the Wife of Bath? Explain why or why not.