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Chaucer Quotes, Critics and Context - Coggle Diagram
Chaucer Quotes, Critics and Context
Marriage
"He that misconceyveth, he misdemeth." (95)
"And al myn heritage, toun and tour; / I yeve it yow, maketh chartres as yow leste; / This shal be doon to-morwe er sonne reste," (79)
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"But evere live as widwe in clothes blake," (73)
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"She shal nat passe twenty yeer, certain;" (27)
"A man may do no sinne with his wyf, / Ne hurte himselven with his owene knyf;" (57)
"I moot trespace / To yow, my spouse, and yow greetly offende, / Er time come that I wil doun descende." (57)
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"Whan tendre youthe hath wedded stouping age, / Ther is swich mirthe that it may nat be writen." (49)
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"'Noon oother lyf,' seyde he, 'is worht a bene; / For wedlok is so esy and so clene, / That in this world it is a paradis.'" (17)
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Merchant hasn't the faintest clue about marriage and it is telling - "Chaucer seems to enjoy the clash of tale and teller," - Cathy O'Neil
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"Chaucer makes an affair look like the moral option, or at least quite a forgivable sin, in this marital mess." - Mickey Meally
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Marxism
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"hye on horse he sat; / Upon his heed a Flaundrissh bever hat," (13)
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The Fabliaux Genre
"And on hire wombe he stroketh hire ful softe," (95)
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"Gan pullen up the smok, and in he throng."(91)
"Chaucer seems preoccupied with the sorrows of the female and their revenge in the most bawdy and explicit manner." - Ackroyd
one of the sources for inspiration for the pear tree scene is Baccacio's 'Decameron' (in Baccacio's the characters have sex under the tree, not in it)
"Save he himself; for of the smale wiket / He baar alwey of silver cliket," (71)
"She taketh him by the hand, and harde him twiste" (67)
"Doun by his beddes side sit she than, / Confortinge him as goodly as she may." (63)
"WIth alle hir wommen, unto Damyan." (63)
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"Lyk to the skin of houndfissh, sharp as brere -" (57)
"He drinketh ypocras, clarree, and vernage / Of spices hoote, t'encreessen his corage;" (55)
references the book De Coitu which is about a man that can't get it up - Chaucer is showing off his education
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in recognition of his poetic talent, King Edward III granted Chaucer "a gallon of wine daily for the rest of his life" - Ackroyd
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Januarie = inspired by SIr Gilles de Roet, Chaucer's father-in-law who is also a knight?
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30% of British population died in the Black Death epidemic in 1348 - people live for the moment #carpediem!
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Pilgrimage - many were there as an opportunity for travel and trade, not because of any genuine religious agenda
"pilgrims were already less devotional than commercial; they were a form of entertainment." - Cathy O'Neil
Blindness
"And whan that Pluto saugh this grete wrong, / To Januarie he gaf again his sighte," (91)
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"Ther passeth thrugh his herte night by night, / As whoso tooke a mirour, polisshed bright, / And sette it in a commune market-place," (39)
Eustace Deschamps - Chaucer's French Contemporary - 'Miror de Mariage' - mal marie (texts about bad marriages) - Chaucer and Deschamps both follow this genre
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"Januarie's blindness renders him passive out of doors; this is the domain in which May is in control." - Pamela King