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Medieval literature
Ballads
Vernacular --> the lyrics were simple, full of repetition and understandable by everyone.
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Oral --> ballads were never written, but orally past from generation to another, with a musical accompaniment.
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Geordie
many reetition, stanza ends with full stop
7 stanzas of 4 lines (1,3 longer)
The Canterbury tales --> story telling competition. each of theme first speaks about himself and then tells a story.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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the canterbury tales is not only the most important text of the period, but also it gives a picture of the medieval time in England.
Language style
written in verse, one of the first text in English.
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Themes
religion, marriage, love, chivalry
magic, and can be from every day life or beast fables.
Sources
Boccaccio gave the frame of the story but, the idea of competition was taken from "English pui", a story telling contest.
he was inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron (1/4 of the tales are copied), the bible, Petrarca and Dante.
Characters
The Revees
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irritable man.
He tells a tale to revenge the way his social class has been portrayed in another tale.
The wife of bath
a knight raped a young girl: to survive, he has to answer the queen's question "what woman desire" he answers "power and dominion"
his life was saved, but he had to marry an old woman. at the end she became a beautifull young girl.
prologue
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business woman, very rich. five times merried and with may lovers; a pilgrim. emancipated woman.