Wife of Bath

[alicejenkins27]

Not going to lie, but my whole english class seemed to love it, but thats because we are da bomb! Big up JM Sixth Form 2k12 love ya long time

p.s. 1.56 into the video is a still for my pleasantly minded friend, Jennifer Baggott (: 

[MrsSmurf490]

@ObserveReality why are you having such a big tizzy about it ?! Jeez get off of your high horse and get a life love

[MrsSmurf490]

God our English teacher made us watch this today we were all rather disgusted by her saggy boobs !

[alexander3062]

watched it today and i was like wtf?! our english teacher is retarded,lol.

[TehManofMusic]

@izizful AND he gets a beautiful and faithful wife out of the bargin.

[boneprincess1]

That answer kinda hit the nail on the head

[izizful]

so the mother fucker rapes a woman and gets away with it???

[jrpg0630]

this is creepy

[THEREALDALUMIAN]

it sucks mofuckerz

[tar5o]

jajaa qe sabiduria

[MrChaoscheese]

do you have this one in middle english?

[deadman00]

this is Chauers version of the story Gawain and Dame Ragnall. Chacuer makes his own varations and he does not name the knight.

[darkgomugomu]

Wait.

If this guy was gonna get killed once he returned, why didnt he just run away? I'd rather spend my life on the lam-uh, er, horse- than sleep with a crogidy lady like that

[IronKnuckleKO]

@darkgomugomu An excellent point...!

[boneprincess1]

I watched this once. It's really insightful

[darkgomugomu]

Would you rather have a wife ugly but true, or one that is young but unfaithful

I just wont get marries

[darkgomugomu]

@darkgomugomu *married

[jonhayashi1]

Fantastic hand drawn animation and while this subject includes rape which leads to controversy it is thoughfully done with flair and imagination! Those watching this might enjoy my hand drawn fantasy animation, BALDER'S EGG, THE MAGIC ARROWS, THE COLOSSEUM, and THE BLACK WIDOW on my channel page on you tube.

[georgpaul49]

Cool stuff,thumbs up

[4ingP]

He should have just beat his meat. Then all that wouldn't have happened.

[GIR177]

We were about to see this in English, but the bell rang. I had to come and check it out.

[aboutashow]

We just watched this in school- arghhh, it was so awkward!

[superspaz13]

beautiful animation.

[kumamaroll]

Oh, miss Quinn, in my opinion, you have a wonderful

control of the body weight in animation. I admire your work.

[disneyfreaksXIII]

what has been seen cannot be unseen

[Schlachthaus999]

Lost nearly all faith in my generation when 5 fellas lold at the rape scene during English IV today.

[Lilamente]

I saw this... gosh that old ladies boobies! >>

[lyndzi18]

if he's asked to find out what WOMEN most desire, why is he asking MEN???

[nemo3590]

@lyndzi18 He asked women in the original tale--not sure why they changed it in the video.

[BerylProductions]

Gosh I'm surprised this has caused so much debate!!! It makes fascinating reading.

[Offertory]

The video was amazing, but the comments are hilarious.

One Half: An complex debate about feminism in Caucer's work.

Other half: Boobies. lolz

[jonhayashi1]

This animation makes me think of that old saying,"beauty is only skin deep!" The hand drawn animation style reminds me of Richard Williams' A Christmas Carol special that he produced with Chuck Jones in the 1970s! It has the voice of Alister Sim, the best Scrooge ever! I have that special on video tape but I would love to see a remastered version of it! I love how Quinn's hand drawn animation revels so joyfully in it being hand drawn! I look forward to later parts of this Canterbury version!

[17reasonhomie]

wow, rapes girl n gets away with it.

[13BloodMoon13]

@BerylProductions I love how everyone's getting all worked up about how you're trying to change the story to make your feminist views more apparent, when in the original version the WIFE HERSELF is a very clear (if brassy) feminist, at least in my mind. Really, if you look at this, there isn't much feminism to see until the old woman gets the upper hand. I think the second the word feminism came up, THAT'S when people started spewing idiocy.

I say everyone needs to shut up and enjoy the show.

[TheNissy12]

I think you did a really good job interpreting the story, not to mention show what many don't dare to speak about or want to know. That is the problem with society, we need to know certain things in order to fix them.

[TheNissy12]

wow this is a really good video. how did you do it?

[11ikechukwu]

I wish you could make one for the wife of bath prologue

[13BloodMoon13]

@11ikechukwu Oh! Or the Prioress's Tale! THAT would be fantastic!

[vdag94]

wow, this is amazing.

[BitchenFrogTamer]

the story is quite disturbing on some points,but the animation is just wonderful on this.Saw it in my English 4 class today c:

[ramofarahs1]

( . Y . ) Boobies



[9foxgrl15]

my senior english class saw this last may. we were flipping out. 

[13BloodMoon13]

@9foxgrl15 I know what you mean - mine just saw it yesterday, and none of us could stop laughing at how OLD the old hag looks! I thought her boobs were getting ready to fall off! XD

[geohexamon]

I watched this in school today. My reactions: ಠ__ಠ

[8ThReEthunder]

@geohexamon

me tooooooooooo

[SincereTheLady]

@geohexamon I was shocked when I saw this in school it's allowed they banned harry pottter but can how sex scenes WTF!!!???

[CarsiLuv]

@geohexamon

My online english teacher sent us here... She warned us to hide our little brothers and sisters because it was adult themed.... My mom walked in on me watching and her reaction was ಠ__ಠ too...

[MrChaoscheese]

@geohexamon hah, so did i

[mirkokk95]

@geohexamon I also watched this video in school :D

[KyleElykIsMe]

@geohexamon I just watched it in school today. That was my same face.

[ninjanaruto03]

@geohexamon Im pretty sure my whole class had that same reaction XD

[Nickilewis102]

dat woman breast rel long boi

[artschoolgrrl]

I gotta say, setting a rapist free is not the smartest thing the queen could have done, and that knight is no prize - why would the old hag want to soil her bed with his "loving"?

[BrainElixir]

@artschoolgrrl Because it's the Medieval ages and this shit happened all the time.

[richardb5068]

we were watching this in our english 12 class...and we thought that it was a stupid cartoon but now it was scary and creepy to us because of that old lady want a middle age man.....eeeewww

[MZBARBEE007]

@richardb5068 me too LOL

[MZBARBEE007]

@richardb5068 me too LOL i was watching in my class

[richardb5068]

@MZBARBEE007 4 me its ugly...ehe

[fruitikay]

Hey I noticed that you add in a lot of your own artistic interpretations to the actual text. I like how the young Maiden has a flower at the beginning, and then you showcase during the rape how it is wilted. Then you make it bloom towards the end. Was that the young Maiden holding the flower at the end? What does the flower represent to you? This is fun because I can actually ask the real artist questions about their art. :D

[MZBARBEE007]

@fruitikay the flower represents the virginity that the knight took from the woman

[BowedOak1]

This is gorgeous, thank you so much!

[LeeAnnOfAlderaan]

We watched this in English class and this was my favorite animation though we didn't get to see the whole thing (I really wanted to see the Miller's tale) I went to an estate sale and found and old text book with a short bit about Chaucer's works, a guide to Middle English pronuncation and terms, and The Canterbury Tales in its original writing form.

[princess1]

Hey where did you get this clip from ??

[mapreader]

@princess1

It's part of the Animated Canterbury Tales. You can find the DVD on Amazon UK.

[SuperFaru123]

verry funny i ilke this greetz from the Netherlands

Thumps up plz

[CaddlesCrayon]

holy crap the end of that was nightmare fuel

[ObserveReality]

And thus they live, unto hir lyves ende,

In parfit Ioye

"And thus they lived, unto their lives end, in perfect love." hahaha

[videoviewer422]

that chick has sagggy titties

[hippo11222]

Why did the knight become old as well?

[jsmithbab6]

I am surprised to see that there were rape trials in the 13th century.

[ObserveReality]

@jsmithbab6 That is because feminists make up history. Of course there were rape trials in the 13th century. That shit was never ok, even pre roman germanic tribes didnt allow that, and considering that native american and african tribes (which are our best guess as to what white people were doing in the stone age) also don't allow it, its probably never been ok. Feminist make shit up.

[ObserveReality]

@jsmithbab6 even the Roman myth as to why they overthrew their kings to form a republic was because the prince raped some Lucretia. The idea that patriarchy is pro rape or ambivalent towards it is pure feminist fiction.

[Fishdogpigsquirrel]

You can tell she's a virgin because she's fat.

[frumiousbandersnatch]

Amazing. I've always been impressed with your fluid draghtsmanship and the humanity of your characters, ever since I saw your work in a festival *mumblemumble* years ago.

[nasharussia89]

that was AWESOME!I loved this!!!congrats!!!

[xninjajjx]

The most horrifying claymation I've ever seen, seriously. The animation's cool though.

[JacklynHyde917]

This is the best rendition of this tale I have ever seen. Thank you!

[Gogurtfun]

@BerylProductions I dearly enjoyed this video, it helped me very much in my understanding, can you please upload the whole Canterbury movie? I love your work.

[Courzilla]

Wow, that's some great animation and voice acting!

[langolava]

even though he commits rape, and seems to get off scott free with a beautiful woman as his wife, he does in a sense, end up paying a price - the price of total submission to his wife. we all know what that could entail, so maybe it wasn't so bad?

[DoubleDDD100]

We are lear ning now in school

[SinfulAlchemist]

so he rapes a girl and gets rewarded with a pretty wife in the end?

[DoubleDDD100]

@SinfulAlchemist The Moral is that you should treat women fairly and give them a chance

[TheAndinsky]

to follow but it is definitely worth reading it - you will hardly be able to stop before the end.

[TheAndinsky]

Has anybody of you read the actual story of the wife of bath, without lexical modernization? Though I like the artwork of this clip - the storytelling itself, including the words and speech, is really, really bad. Of course it cannot be but an interpretation - yet there are no ideas left for the viewer to reconstruct on his own - it gives a simple morale: "do bad and you'll end sad." But there is much, much more to the story itself than just this trivial idea. The language sometimes is hard...

[oldchild527]

i donth thik he gets a beautiful woman instead he has a nightmare every night.

soooo great you have the rest of the chapters ? i was looking at it but i dotn found them please

[ellwort]

I don't know - but I've always read "maistrie" (here called "sovereignty)" as self-determination, i.e, sole power over oneself and one's own destiny (pro-choice), which is pretty much what this anachronistic male-chauvanist culture has denied women for too many centuries:

"Doesn't play well with others - difficulty with sharing"

I dream that it's not a big competition. A battle for the upper hand may lead to everybody drowning,

Peace

- Gylany

[ellwort]

I don't know - but I've always read "maistrie" (here called "sovereignty)" as self-determination, i.e, sole power over oneself and one's own destiny (pro-choice), which is pretty much what this anachronistic male-chauvanist culture has denied women for too many centuries:

"Doesn't play well with others - difficulty with sharing"

I dream that it's not a big competition. A battle for the upper hand may lead to everyboy drowning,

Peace

- Gylany

[dreyaleesings]

wow omfg she was so ugly xDDD

[JonasBravaLova93]

It annoys me how the Knight only asks men what women want most. He never asks a single female until the old wife at the end. Shame.

[TheYrange]

OMG I remember watching this on the television when i was little. I love the canterbury tales animations - do u know of or have any more x

[ubercream]

He didn't even take off his armor to rape her...

[HabboVG1997]

We were watching these in my English class at school but my teacher skipped through this one xD LOL

[LadyRyuga]

I love the way it's illustrated! I love the colours also!!! Just brilliant!!!

[Myfaspoohbear]

excellent excellent video!!!!

[abvp257]

amazing job!!!!! but I gotta say that this is one of my least fav!

[Q88D]

OMG THIS CRAZY

[Moonstone2732]

Anyone find it odd that he rapes a woman, but eventually gets a beautiful lady as his wife? I mean I'm glad that the girl finally was able to find peace, but it is an odd way with stories.

[BerylProductions]

@Moonstone2732 That's Chaucer for you...however I did turn her back into the old woman at the end. My small nod to feminism.

[Moonstone2732]

@BerylProductions Nicely done:) then^^.

[ObserveReality]

@BerylProductions why would you stray from the story for feminisms sake? I sappose rewriting things to suite your fancy is a hallmark of feminism though...

[BerylProductions]

@ObserveReality I'm a filmmaker and I explore ideas. As a feminist I see things differently to you and this is my interpretation of Chaucer's work. What's wrong with subverting or interpreting a classical work - I'm not demeaning it?

[duerksjv]

@BerylProductions What new ideas were explored? It was an idealogical self-indulgence. The role of women in these stories and the medieval ages themselves can be unsettling or even offensive to our sensibilities, but to insert modern politics and agendas, whatever they may be, does an injustice to the original work. Now, I really enjoyed this video. The animation was amazing! And I'm not critical out of a sort of anti-feminism, but these old works should be free of our political agendas.

[Rachulie]

@ObserveReality This IS feminist! what are you talking about?!?!

[13BloodMoon13]

@ObserveReality Oh, get off your soap box - and learn to spell while you're at it. It's an interpretation - it hasn't said in any version I've read that the old hag STAYS beautiful, just that she became beautiful when the knight gave her the reigns.

It takes a pretty shallow person to attack someone's beliefs or morals over the way they imagine the story playing out. Honestly, I think the only reason you brought this up at all is because she said she was nodding to feminism.

[ObserveReality]

@13BloodMoon13 Oh? I'm pretty sure you are just mad that someone disagreed with twisting literature. That is the trend in today's English departments however, and its a shame. Little clowns like you are really not worth debating with, you are obviously just a mindless foot soldier.

[Offertory]

@ObserveReality To be fair, how can anyone really know what Chaucer intended? It's not "twisting literature", but intrepreting it. Being able to explore different ideas about a pice of literature is the opposite of being "mindless", it's being analyical and open-minded. Just because this video has a feminist interpretation of the work, doesn't make it wrong. In fact, the Wife of Bath's tale has very clear evidence for that interpretation considering it's all about women desiring soverignty.

[13BloodMoon13]

@ObserveReality Mindless foot soldier? Really?

I'm not mad that someone "twisted literature" - if she HAD done that, I wouldn't have piped up. What I'm upset about is the way you worded your initial comment to sound like an attack on feminism, but if you're too stupid to read through your own comment and see that for yourself, perhaps you should go back to watching Barney and pretending Chaucer told you in person exactly how the Wife's story ends.

[littleduck135]

@Moonstone2732 actually he doesn´t get the beautiful lady. She was beautiful, but now she´s ugly and old... That was the lesson for him: If she was young and beautiful she could run off with one of his friends, but now she will stay true to him. But yeah the story is a little weird :p

[ObserveReality]

@littleduck135 He gets a beautiful lady who is always faithful and obedient to him in the end. He let her have sovreignty in marriage, and she rewarded him by giving him both beauty and loyalty. And yeah, he lives happily ever after with her. I mean, read it.

[littleduck135]

@ObserveReality You don´t have to read it so carefully; you also have to have some morality thought. but if you think you're right... thats fine XD

[ObserveReality]

@littleduck135 And whan the knight saugh verraily al this,

That she so fair was, and so yong ther-to,

For Ioye he hente hir in his armes two,

His herte bathed in a bath of blisse;

A thousand tyme a-rewe he gan hir kisse.

And she obeyed him in every thing

That mighte doon him plesance or lyking.

[ObserveReality]

@Moonstone2732 The canterbury tales are awesome, and this one is one of the best, with the Shipman's tale and the Reves tale rivaling it. but you have to actually read it to get it. this skims it pretty fast, I think its awesome artwork, but I'm glad I read it before watching this, if I hadn't i wouldn't be able to fill in the gaps and could interpret it fairly differently. I should make my own cartoon of it lol.

[KnockoffNigeI]

@Moonstone2732 It's not a morality tale, it's a satire on the institution of marriage. The knight's death sentence is a metaphor for the reality of extinction a man faces if he remains unwed. That's why he rapes the maid, it's an affront against the natural order, which the wife sees as men subjugated in marriage. Chaucer saves the sting till the end when he reveals the wife's cynical and acquisitive nature.

[DigitaIL0VE]

Marvelous.

[in2tat2s]

the animation is astonishing :O

[theopalsim]

she pulls a funny face at 0:20

[customcartoons]

Wow Johanna Quinn and Bill Plympton oughta do a project together! :D

[rubbertrollop]

well yes of course the animation is stunning but are we missing the point - what women want. We must fight them on the beaches etc...

[frumiousbandersnatch]

@rubbertrollop We'll cut you off at the knees before you get to the beach.

[lordvore]

I remember this from the first time it was on TV. I loved them all but this one especially. I remember reading it out loud to my class in highschool in old English as well. Only when put to people with the full ribald and earthy character as Chaucer intended do the stories really grab people.

[manuelpapel]

Love it! wonderful animation

[stephpyle06]

Omg I've been looking for this everywhere! Thank you for uploading!

[TheYrange]

@stephpyle06 Hey do u know of anyother animations of canterbury tales on youtube?

[pavlovich74]

The best in the series. I had loved it long before I knew of Quinn's work. But have returned to it through my recent fascination with her other works.

[BlackMagnumFilms]

Thanks, we're studying Cantenbury Tales in English.

[DKcoolhusna04]

Thanks alot 4 posting this, doing wife of bath now in english.

[mattmit]

I love Joanna Quinns animation!

[RichardDeDappere]

this is just beautifull a peace of real art

[TheLegendaryDelta]

rape! >:O

[nationalist19]

where can i find the rest of this