Critics Quotes

Question 1

Economic power- Priscilla Martin

Answer 1

‘The male exploitation of economic power for erotic purchase’

Question 2

Women of gentry- Ann Haskell

Answer 2

‘Life for women of the gentry was synonymous with marriage’

Question 3

Economic and religious nexus- David Aers

Answer 3

‘May transcends the economic and religious nexus in which she has been sold and violated’

Question 4

Human behaviour- Derek Pearsall

Answer 4

‘The amoral tale reduces all human behaviour to lust and greed’

Question 5

Emasculated- Beidler

Answer 5

‘January is emasculated by a wife who plays a knightly role he should be playing’

Question 6

Deceitfulness- Martin Stevens

Answer 6

‘A story intending to show the deceitfulness is women’

Question 7

Courtly convention- David L Shores

Answer 7

‘Cynical condemnation of courtly convention’

Question 8

Religion mocked- Tutlock

Answer 8

‘Religion itself is bemocked’

Question 9

Side of women- Gail Ashton

Answer 9

‘This portrayal of married love is firmly in the side of the female’