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chauser context and critics - Coggle Diagram
chauser context and critics
writing
written in late 1300's and early 1400's
"chooses to hide behind words and allows his personality to be disguised within them [multiple narratives] he shifts the blame" - ackeroyd
"he was poised between the courtly poet and self conscious literary artist" - ackeroyd
"experiment in diversity"
"experience of heterogeneity"
written in iambic pentameter
genre
fabliau
courtly love
irony/ satire
"a contemporary ironist and satirist"
social context
time of social change
mercantile imagery/ references
gap between upper and lower classes was slowly closing
pilgrims
while original reason was religious, by the 1400's it became more of a social and commercial experience
religion is used and abused in the text
priests cursory wedding ceremony seems nothing more than a swift stamp of approval for Januaries lustful designs
audiences
immediate audience was sophisticated and upper class who were also apart of the court
mercantile attitude towards marriage
Chaucer's work targeted a range of audiences through his use of multiple genres
"an experiment in diversity"
"experience of heterogeneity"
women
medieval marriage market where women are traded as a commodity
a good wife "is to watch the behaviour of his lapdog and imitate it"
historical and political
14th cent. was a time of change due to amount of death - Black Death hit 4 times
plague created opportunity for lower classes to gain more financially and socially
between 1/3 and 1/2 population died
set in pavia a city in Italy which is well known for it's brothels and banks
100 year war with the French
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