The Wife of Bath's Tale in the context of "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle"

The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle (The Weddynge of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnell) is a 15th-century English poem, one of several versions of the "loathly lady" story popular during the Middle Ages. An earlier version of the story appears as The Wife of Bath's Tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, and the later ballad The Marriage of Sir Gawain is essentially a retelling, though its relationship to the medieval poem is uncertain. The author's name is not known, but similarities to Le Morte d'Arthur have led to the suggestion that the poem may have been written by Sir Thomas Malory.