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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 Hag (Loathly Lady) and that of the hero's fate depending ....
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.... into a fair maiden in all the tales except SD. Jo Janet's equivalent of the transformation is the revelation of her royal identity.
3) A crime brings on the hero's plight in TF, SD, and P.
4) The enchantment ends with a kiss in DR, M, DS, KO, and LD.
5) The hero turns away from her in bed in F, M, DR, KH and SD.
6) There is an element of "holding back," or saving a kind of trump card to be played last in all the tales except Libeaus Desconus.
7) The hero makes a choice: all the tales s.... |
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