I assure Free for All letter writer Daniel Klein that other attendees of "The Canterbury Tales" also were surprised and insulted by the decision to stage the grossly anti-Semitic Prioress's tale.

One of the tales that is told in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” is the controversial story told by a prioress called “The Prioress’s Tale.” A prioress is a woman who is head ...

The Chaucer Review, Vol. 56, No. 4, SPECIAL ISSUE: The Ethical Challenge of Chaucerian Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century (2021), pp. 397-412 (16 pages) https ...

Thus wrote Chaucer in his exquisite prologue to The Canterbury Tales. So, it's time to get ... most interesting episode is the Prioress's Tale. This is a hateful xenophobic legend about an angelic ...

meant that ordinary folk could enjoy the Canterbury Tales and their vivid characters - among them the sexy Wife of Bath with her five husbands, the snobbish Prioress and the cynical Pardoner.

The Wife of Bath was dreamed up by Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales more than 600 years ago. She has captured countless imaginations since. The character known for her lusty appetites ...