By the time the play premiered in 1903, MacKaye had rebranded it The Canterbury Pilgrims. Two new versions of ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale’, by Zadie Smith and the Australian novelist Karen Brooks, show ...
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.