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Sir Gawain And The Wife Of Bath
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Chaucer's Tale of the Wife of Bath, the lead tale of the so-called "marriage group", is a Gawain story standing amongst the latter versions of a group of analogues which in the main incorporate two chief motifs, viz., that of the Transformed H .... Middle of Term Paper
... of Sir Gawain (MG)
The Adventure of Daire's Sons (DS)
The Ballad of King Henry (KH)
The Ballad of the Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter (SD)
The Ballad of Kemp Owyne (KO)
Libeaus Desconus (LD) {one episode}
Wolfram's Parzival (P) {the German version of Chretien's Contes Del Graal} (one episode)
They are chosen because of certain common features which may help to illuminate Chaucer's use of motifs and incidents, and certainly not with an eye to source study.
If we count the magical nature of the meeting with the hag as a separate feature from her transformation, then there eight features which these tales, or most of them, shar ... |
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