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Abstract: This article asserts continuity of purpose between The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale through the Pauline marital paradigm of mutual submission. The apparent incongruity between the Wife’s diatribe against expectations of wifely submission in the Prologue and her Tale ’s subsequent depiction of a reformed rapist knight who eventually finds himself happily married to a beautiful, submissive wife has long produced scholarly consternation. I argue that the Prologue and Tale work together to reveal the inevitable outcome of imposing gender hierarchies in marriage and a means of recovering a Pauline marriage paradigm focused on service rather than power.
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