What is chaucers tone toward the wife of bath? cite specific words and phalrases to support your answer

I'd guess that GC's tone to her would have been playfully mocking. I've not got the Cant tales to hand, but they seem to be a sort of situation comedy/reality show of a pile of, possibly, misfits all going to Canterbury, UK, as a Pilgrimage for their various "wrongdoings". Canterbury is, I think, the Seat of the Anglican church, UK's nominal religion (after the Henry 8 schism). Archbishop of C is a big "player" in UK posh society.

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