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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, which was published in March 1981 by
Bantam Books in New York, New York is a funny piece of work about twenty- nine
characters and their stories while on their way to Canterbury. The twenty-nine characters
have to tell two stories on their trip to Canterbury. In the Wife of Bath tale, the wife of
bath tells of a tale of a young knight, the central character in the story. After he raped a
woman, he must roam the countryside in search to the answer to the question "what is it
that women most desire?" This is the plot, for he must find the answer in order to live.
The knight only has one year to get to answer this question and then he has to return to
King Arthur's court and await his sentence.

The setting is in King Arthur's court when a young man saw a pretty maiden and
raped her. The King was going to sentence him to death but the Queen decided to give
him one year to answer the question . The story is told from the Wife of......

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