Chaucer quotes Flashcards
What did Derek Pearsall say about the merchants tale
The amoral tale reduces all human behaviour to list and greed
What did Beidler say about the January
January’s folly is that he sees what he wants to see, rather than what is actually before him.
What did Martin Stevens say about how the tale views women
A story intending to show the deceitfulness of women
Dimly misogynistic and bitter
What does John Thorne says about January’s attitude to religion
January’s bending of religious authority to his own selfish purposes leaves religion untouched but adds to our sense of his delusion and error
What is fabliau
Short verse tales with coarse humor and realistic (sometimes obscene) description of middle/lower class life
What did Stephanie tolliver say about may
May is made of masculine fantasy
What did Stephanie tolliver say about January
January is “blinded by the deception of his wife”
What does Burnley say about the tone of the narrator
Cynical narrator contemplating a scene of moral desolation
What does Stephanie tolliver say about marriage in the tale
January shops for his bride
What does HA Kelly say about love in the tale
Mutual love between the spouses is notably absent
What is placebo
A sychophant
Why did men want to marry young women in the middle ages
So they were more fertile, more likely to be virgins, and easier to control
What does the good man of Paris say about how a wife should treat her husbands pleasure
His pleasure should come before yours
What does the goodman of Paris say about loving one’s husband
Loving and privy towards your husband above all other living creatures
What does the goodman of Paris say about a husbands demands of a wife
They are “commandments”
What does theophrastus say about marriage
A wise man therefore must not take a wife
What does theophrastus say about the power balence in a marriage
You must yourself be her slave
What are the opening lines of the merchants prologue
Wepyng and waylyng
How would the merchants wife fight the devil
She wolde hym overmarcche
What animal does the merchant compare his wife to
She is a shrewe at al
What is the merchant jealous of
Grisildis grete pacience
Where does damyan put mays letter
Leyde it at his herte
How is mays beauty described
Hir fresshe beautee and Hir age tendre
Where is may from
Ther was a maiden in the toun
