Critics and Context - Chaucer

Question 1

‘Ribald fabliau’

Answer 1

Mike Meally (art of bad story telling)

Question 2

‘an old bachelor luxuriating in lechery’

Answer 2

mike meally - discussing januaire (art of bad story telling)

Question 3

St jerome

Answer 3

translater of the vulgate latin bible, was the ultimate authority on women in the middle ages

Question 4

Theophrastus

Answer 4

wrote about the archetypal portrait of a wicked wife

Question 5

Eustace Deschamps

Answer 5

‘mirror de mariage’, a list of ploys used by women when her husband will not give her what she wants

Question 6

Christine de Pisan

Answer 6

letter to cupid - points out the discrepancy between the literary romance convention of courtly love in contrast to the anti feminism at the time

Question 7

‘a story intending to show the deceitfulness of women’

Answer 7

Matin Stevens

Question 8

‘cynical condemnation of courtly convention’

Answer 8

David L. Shores

Question 9

‘Januarys bending of religious authority to his own selfish purposes’

Answer 9

John Thorne

Question 10

‘january shops for his bride’

Answer 10

Stephanie A. Tolliver

Question 11

‘May is made of masculine fantasy’

Answer 11

Stephanie A Tolliver

Question 12

pearsall - immoral tale

Answer 12

the immorale tale reduces all human behaviour to greed and lust

Question 13

Brown - the garden

Answer 13

‘the garden is a representation of mays body

Question 14

Harrington - happiness

Answer 14

‘happiness js only possible through folly and deception’

Question 15

Burnley - Irony

Answer 15

Irony so quiet, so delicate