"The Wife of Bath's Tale" is among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It provides insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages. The wife of Bath is one of Chaucer's most developed characters, with her Prologue twice as long as her Tale. She calls herself both Alyson and Alys in the prologue, but these are also the names of her "gossip", a close friend whom she mentions several times, as well as many female characters throughout The Canterbury Tales. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)