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WOB
(redirected from Wife of Bath)

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WOBWolfsburg (Germany)
WOBWet Openbaarheid Van Bestuur
WOBWoman-Owned Business
WOBWork of Breathing
WOBWeight On Bit (Oil Industry)
WOBWaste Of Bandwidth (slang)
WOBWhite On Black (printing)
WOBWriting on Back (descriptive of condition of vintage postcards & other ephemera)
WOBWorld of Britney (website)
WOBWife of Bath
WOBWorld of Business
WOBWay of Being
WOBWings of Blue (Air Force Academy)
WOBWhole of Business
WOBWeight of Blend
WOBWork Order Bin
WOBWant of Bee


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This week, Julie Walters and Bill Nighy deconstruct the Wife of Bath as a show-biz parable.
WATCH-O-RAMA HIGHLIGHTS AND LOWLIGHTS OF THE COMING TV WEEK by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Ginsberg's nuanced final section asserts that Chaucer's Clerk becomes si multaneously "the first English Petrarchist and his first English critic" (265), finding furthermore that Chaucer, who learned of the Griselda story "from Petrarch at Padua[,] is never more Boccaccian than when he introduces Griselda of Saluzzo to the Wife of Bath on the toad to Canterbury" (268).
Chaucer's Italian Tradition. by Roush, Sherry / Renaissance Quarterly
The Wife of Bath is coarse, lusty, nagging, and indiscriminate in her taste for men.
Chaucer's descendants: evolutionary biologists help trace the ... by Brainard, Jeffrey / Science News
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