Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
The Wife of Bath is the only pilgrim for whom Chaucer describes two sets of clothing – one at the beginning, the other at the end of her portrait – in the General Prologue.
In a short poem called "l'Envoy a Chaucer a Bukton," Chaucer tells Bukton that marriage is a trap, for more on this he advises him "The Wyf of Bathe I praye yow that yow rede / Of this matere that we have on honed."
In 1713, a London playwright named John Gay brought to the London stage a play entitled The Wife of Bath, a comedy adapted from Chaucer. (Source)