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This is an explanation of the genre of the Wife of Bath tale.

The wife of bath tale is a folk tale.

There are common people, and common happenings and show a realistic story and sometimes explain things about life in a simple, logical way, like; 'That's the marriage over, and now I think we should leave them alone together!' and 'Why is there never a priest around when you want one?'. Or this one: 'What women most desire is to have dominion and power over their husbands...'

Common people and events are the key points of folk tales. Many of these stories originated among common people and passed on mouth by mouth over generations. In folk tales we can read about common folk, like peasants, maidens, husbands and wives, trades people, priests but also kings and  queens. These tales simply express and/or explain things in life and nature through the story. These events can be simple as picking raspberries to marriages, farming and horrible executions. So the reader will get a logical and realistic message throughout the story. While there might be talking animals in some folk tales, there are no magical elements.

In this tale we can read about some common people like Sir Codsbrain, Queen Guinevere and the Old Woman. Their story  is a realistic explanation about lessons or happenings in life like the consequences of being mean (bad), searching for an answer and paying a price for your actions.
Therefor we can conclude that the wife of bath tale is a folk tale.