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The Wife of Bath's Tale

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The Wife of Bath's Tale

By: Geoffrey Chaucer
Narrated by: Peggy Ashcroft
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The best known of Chaucer's Canterbury's Tales, read by Dame Peggy Ashcroft. After a prologue, in which the Wife of Bath mentions that she would welcome another husband - who would be her sixth - and that she pursues power over her husbands, she tells a tale about a knight who must marry....

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The Chaucer was excellent as was the performance.
The spirited performance brought the words to life.
I was not following along in the text, so don't know if it followed the text exactly.
The recording was imperfect, but it was clear enough to be heard.

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If you are purchasing to read along or even just understand, avoid this rendition. It skips around with no warning, omitting entire lines. very disappointed I wasted money on this title.

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