Krantz
Reading Questions
Chaucer
Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
These questions are to guide your journaling of the tale and the remainder its prologue. Think about them as you read. The groupwork will consist of your discussing 2 questions that I will assign from these questions.

WB Prologue
1. What picture of Jankyn arises from the wife's story?
2. What characteristics of the Wife match those of the wives in Jankyn anti-women book?
3. How does the wife get sovereignty over Jankyn and what does this tell us?
WB Tale
4. What does the wife imply about the holiness of "limitours"? What do you make of the queen's punishment of the knight?
5. What answers does the Knight get to his question? What antifeminism lies in the answers?
6. What impression of the knight is given by his first responses to the loathly lady?
7. What lesson(s) does the loathly lady teach the knight?
8. How does the speech of the loathly lady reflect the concerns the Wife shows in her prologue?
9. What, if any, justice is in the story? If there is no justice, what makes you say this?