The Wife of Bath's Prologue versus The Cell Block Tango: Lethal Women in Wedlock?

 The Wife of Bath's Prologue - Geoffrey Chaucer 

    "But now to purpose why I tolde thee

That I was beaten for a book, pardee:

Uponn a night Jankin, that was oure sire,

Read on his book, as he sat by the fire,

Of Eva first, that for her wickedness

Was all mankinde brought to wrecchedness,

For which that Jesus Christ himself was slain

That bought us with his herte blood again-

Lo, here express of women may ye find

That women was the loss of all mankind.

    Tho read he me how Sampson lost his heres:

Sleeping his lemman cut it with her sheres,

Thurgh which treason lost he both his eyen,

    Tho read he me, if that I shall not lien,

Of Ercules and of his Dianire,

That caused him to set himself afire.

    Nothing forgot he that sorwe and wo

That Socrates hadde with his wives two,

How Xantippa caste piss upon his head:

This sely man sat still as he were dead;

He wiped his head, no more dorste he sayn

But 'Er that thonder stinte, comth a rain.'

    Of Phasipha that was the queen of Crete-

For shrewedness him thoughte the tale swete-

Fy, speak no more, it is a grisly thing

Of her horrible lust and her liking.

    Of Clutermistra for her lecherye

That falsly made her husbande for to die,

He read it with a full good devocioun."

The Wife of Bath's Prologue - Geoffrey Chaucer (710-738.)

"Cell Block Tango" - Chicago

https://youtu.be/0c2bKZMxEQg?si=3M2heMTnNkaxeBm7

I chose to compare the two of these because they both contain passages about women killing their partners/husbands. When I was reading the entire passage of The Wife of Bath's Prologue all I could think of was the "Cell Block Tango". I found the resemblance to be uncanny. Though they are two entirely separate pieces of art, I think it is important to note that tales of wives killing husbands is not a new concept, in fact it is one that has been around for many years. I do think that the "Cell Block Tango" places the focus on the women who killed their husbands while The Wife of Bath's Prologue focuses more on the stories Jankin was reading, which led him to inflict pain on his wife. The two are so different in nature, but I appreciate the angles that both pieces take on women versus men. Also, it is thought provoking to see that both of these were written by men, yet they take two different takes on the subject! Maybe this has everything to do with the years in which they were written and the societal views on women and marriage during that time?