TMT Critics Flashcards
1
Q
Laura Varnam - ‘Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde,” (pp 81-95)
A
‘Chaucer’s garden in this tale is no longer a place of courtly love or intellectual debate but of lust and sexuality’
2
Q
Elaine Tuttle Hansen - ‘Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender’
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- Early critics of May as ‘a completely unfeeling wife’ is because many are unable to accept her vanquishing over the senex amans.’
May ‘is devised out of January’s thoughts, just as Eve is out of Adam’s.’
3
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January
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May
