Wife of Bath's Prologue & Tale
By Geoffrey Chaucer
Hodder Education
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications
September 2009
ISBN: 9780340965726
94 pages
$26.50 Paper Original
Summary: Each guide comprises three sections: an Introduction, which outlines the aims of the guide, the relevant exam board specification and Assessment Objectives Text Guidance, which gives coverage of key aspects of the text Questions and Answers, which focuses on the various types of essay questions and offers specifmen plans and sample answers, together with mark schemes
Succint and accessible coverage of all the key aspects of the set text, including contexts, interpretations and controversies
Clear outline of the exam board specifications and their Assessment Objectives
Invaluable Question and Answer section with various types of questions, plans, mark schemes and answers
Succint and accessible coverage of all the key aspects of the set text, including contexts, interpretations and controversies
Clear outline of the exam board specifications and their Assessment Objectives
Invaluable Question and Answer section with various types of questions, plans, mark schemes and answers
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Aims of the guide
Assessment objectives
Revision advice
Writing examination essays
Text guidance
Contexts
The medieval context
Chaucer
‘The Canterbury Tales’
The Wife of Bath, her prologue and tale
Key concepts
The art of story-telling
Aspects of language
Critical approaches
Useful quotations
Literary terms and concepts
Questions and Answers
Essay questions, specimen plans and notes
Sample essays
Further study