The Wife of Bath - Softcover

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1617206253 ISBN 13: 9781617206252

Verlag: SMK Books, 2012

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The Wyves Tale of Bathe and prologue are among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. They give insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and are probably of interest to Chaucer himself, for the character is one of his most developed ones, with her prologue twice as long as her tale. She holds her own among the bickering pilgrims, and evidence in the manuscripts suggests that although she was first assigned a different, plainer tale-

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Often referred to as the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer was a fourteenth-century philosopher, alchemist, astrologer, bureaucrat, diplomat, and author of many significant poems. Chaucer s writing was influential in English literary tradition, as it introduced new rhyming schemes and helped develop the vernacular traditionthe use of everyday Englishrather than the literary French and Latin, which were common in written works of the time. Chaucer s best-knownand most imitatedworks include The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess, and The House of Fame.

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• Verlag: SMK Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1617206253
• ISBN 13: 9781617206252
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 40