The epithet ‘of Bath’ is one of the most familiar in the English language, being attached to Chaucer’s famous Wife of Bath; however, fictional residents of late medieval Bath are rare and the Wife is isolated as a Middle English character baring this name. Numerous scholars have discussed the epithet in connection to the city and its cloth trade, including John Manly, Mary Carruthers, and D. W. Robertson, while Hope Phyllis Weissman has considered the connotations of bathing for the character.1¹ Despite these studies, the Wife of Bath has stood alone in medieval literature as a character referred to as ‘of Bath’. However, in a rarely studied fifteenth-century play text, another character is dubbed ‘of Bath’ in a context that raises the possibility of additional connotations for the epithet and has the potential to offer new readings of Chaucer’s famous character.

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“浴”：中古英语成语上义词

绰号“巴斯”（Bath）是英语中最熟悉的一种，与乔W着名的巴斯夫人（Bath of Wath）息息相关。但是，中世纪巴斯的虚构居民很少见，妻子被孤立为中古英语字符，而没有这个名字。许多学者在连接城市和库布其贸易，包括约翰·曼利，玛丽·卡拉瑟斯和DW罗伯逊讨论的称号，同时希望菲利斯魏斯曼已考虑洗澡的内涵为character.1 ¹尽管进行了这些研究，巴斯的妻子在中世纪文学中仍然独树一帜，被称为“巴斯”。但是，在很少研究的15世纪剧本中，另一个人物被冠以“浴”之称，这为该绰号增加了更多内涵的可能性，并有可能为乔uc的著名人物提供新的解读。