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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 35, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedKids Who Trap and Fish and Hunt Don't Mug Old Ladies--Bumper sticker for Dutchess County [New York] Trappers' Association Al sodeinly three leves have I plight Out of his book right as he rede, and eke I with my fist...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 74, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed'The Wife of Bath's Tale' is a story about the rehabilitation of a rapist set in medieval times. Although it treats rape in a casual manner, it depicts the exploitation of females in a medieval patriarchical society and...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:World Poets (Vol. 1. )by Gary Lenhart Introduction Although he was not born into nobility, the ambitious and resourceful Geoffrey Chaucer made a career of service to the English monarchy. He rose rapidly in rank from court page to soldier...Found in Gale Literature: Scribner Writer Series
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From:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 44, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBy examining Geoffrey Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale," the author argues that the romanticization of medieval history leads to misconceptions of the past, in this case of the relationship between England and Wales during...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Vol. 114, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed[C]ountries are not defined merely by power and political sovereignty, but by the traditions, sentiments and aspirations of those who live in them. --R. R. Davies (1) Although critical consensus on the national...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: English Language Notes[(essay date March 1988) In the following essay, Crane provides a tongue-in-cheek look at the mysterious death of Alisoun's fourth husband and defends the Wife against the charge of murder.] "Professional scholars,"...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (Vol. 44, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedReaders who are well immersed in the Child Ballad corpus, and who encounter Chaucer's Clerk's Tale will find that reading it can cause many bells of recognition to chime. Its plotline is reminiscent of a few ballads...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Critical Survey (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Whether or not we choose to identify the narrator of 'The Merchant's Tale' as the Merchant described in the 'General Prologue', this narrative voice is certainly not Chaucer's own, and it augments the...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:The Modern Language Review (Vol. 102, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT This article examines the medieval influence of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales on John Fowles's postmodern novel, A Maggot. I argue that Fowles's fiction reimagines and ultimately transforms the Wife of Bath's...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Vol. 106, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEven in the fifteenth century, Chaucer was seen by his countrymen as the preeminent English poet, the father, as Dryden was to call him in 1700, of English poetry. (1) Despite general agreement in the fifteenth and...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, was—or were—mostly written between about 1387 and some time in the 1390's. It was his last work before his death in 1400, which is clearly foreseen in the conclusion (see Derek...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Neophilologus[(essay date January 1991) In the following essay, Ireland compares The Wife of Bath's Tale with an Irish story in which the country of Ireland is personified as a woman--sometimes young, beautiful, and fertile,...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: English Language Notes[(essay date March 1985) In the following essay, Carruthers refutes many commonly held assertions about the nature of the Wife of Bath's relationship with Jankyn. By analyzing fourteenth-century English usage, Carruthers...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center