First Line: Prologue
"Experience, though noon auc-...
"To spek of the...
Purpose: "As taketh no agrief of that I seye...
Argument for having 5 husbands
"God bad us for to...
Manipulating Authorities- power of language.
"Lo, here, is the wise king, daun Soloman; I trewe...
Modern adaptation
BBC TV series
2010
The Wife controversial arguments against Virginity (opposite to Annabella)
"I pray yow, telleth me...
"And certes, if ther were no seed ysowe...
"Virginitee is...
"I wol use myn ins-...
Assertions, often using double negatives
"That am...
"I nil envye....
"Ne would I nat of him corrected be."
The 14th Century Marriage Debt
"Why should men elles in hir bookes sette...
"Til he had maad his raunson unto me...
"Maistrie" and "Soveraynetee"
"Upon his flessh, whil that I...
"This is to seyn, myself have been the...
"But sith I hadde him...
Deception
"Ye wise wives, than kan und-...Thus shulde ye ...and... on honde."
"The peyne I dide hem and the...
Description of Janekin (Much like Giovanni's description of Annabella)
"For his crispe heer, sh-....
Goes against the power men had in such a patriarchal society
"Thou shalt nat bothe, though that thou were wood,...
Women= Cats
"Thou seydest this, that I....
Beautiful women take pride in their appearance
"It the cattes skin be slik and gay...
Womens' love likened to hell/ fire imagery
-Argument that love is destructive
"Thou liknest eek wommenes love to hell...
"Thou liknest it also to wilde fyr; the moore it brenneth...
"Right as wormes shende a tree...
What she gets out of husbands
"And thus of o thing I avaunte me,
Commercial Imagery
"For al is...
" With empty hand men may...
"For if I wolde selle my b...c...I koude walke as..."
Likens her ageing to bread
"The flour is goon, ther is namoore to tell...
Stereotypical men- Angry when things do no go there way- Giovanni and Soranzo
"For thogh he looked as a... yet he sholde he faille of h-...
Wife about Janekin
"Now of my fithe housbonde wol I tell...
"But in our bed he was...
"My fithe housbounde, god...
Janekin is 'dangerous' for her- treat her badly
"I trowe I love him best, for that he...
"Who wolde were, or who wolde suppose, the...
She gave Jakekin her heart
"That al myn herte I...
...He was, I trewe,...
Astrological Influences (like Giovanni and Fate)
"I had the prente of...
"For certes I am al...
and myn hert is...
She doesn't take Janekin for his money
"For that I take for...
"I took no kep, so that he liked me,...
The wife gives all her possessions and land to him
(opposite to before but willingly)
Because he "had wedded me with greet solempnitee... she
How the wife reacts when he "Smoot me ones on the list"
"For that..., that of the strook...
Jankekin and his misogynistic book of authorities
"book of wikked wives"
"For which oft-...
"He hadde a book that... for his desport he...
Triple negative about Janekin never speaking about a women positively
"Ne of noon ...
Eve and wickedness
"Lo, here express of....
...The womman was...
Janekin view of a 'nagging' woman
'Bet is,' quod he, 'thyn habitacioun be with a...
Janekin- Lion imagery
After she has torn the page out of the book
"And he stirte as dooth...
When he hits her the Wife gets her way, by playing week and innocent (opposite to what she is trying to be?)
"O, hastow slain me...?' I seyde, 'And for my land ...? Er I ..., yet wol..."
She had 'conquered him' through
"Mai...and sov...
She makes Janekin
"He yaf me al...
to han the gov-
and of his ho-..."
"Brenne his...
