Grimaldi Donahue, AllisonKlausner, Lewis SamuelAchlim, Yesenia Celeste2024-05-312024-05-312020Achlim, Yesenia Celeste. "Thynges Smale and Queyntes: The Language of Gender in the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2020.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/82Thesis (B.A. in English Literature, Minor in International Affairs and Creative Writing)--John Cabot University, Fall 2020.This thesis will examine how Geoffrey Chaucer uses the language of gender in the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale in the Canterbury Tales. I will examine the gendered, or gender-neutral diction the Wife of Bath uses, specifically when describing the gender roles and norms of English Medieval society. To support my claims, I will reference other stories in the Canterbury tales, specifically the Miller’s Tale, which uses highly gendered diction to distinguish men from women in terms of their physicality. I will also include sources that speak about commonly used Middle English diction and syntax in order to distinguish between Chaucer’s own creation and characterization, and the linguistic norms of the time.56 pagesenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Wife of Bath's tale (Geoffrey Chaucer)Wife of Bath (Fictitious character)Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literatureTales MedievalThesis