Canterbury Tales (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Geoffrey; Robert W. Hanning (intro & notes); Peter Tuttle
By Geoffrey; Robert W. Hanning (intro & notes); Peter Tuttle (translator) Chaucer
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The tomb of a poet! Cried I, with a spring that electrified my informant a minimum of myself - What poet lies right here and the place is he buried?
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1370 John Lydgate, a writer remembered as an imitator of Chaucer, is born. 1371 John of Gaunt, another son of Edward III and Blanche of Lancaster舗s widower, marries Constance of Castile. Philippa Chaucer serves in their household. 1372 Chaucer makes his first known journey to Italy on a diplo matic mission. 1374 Chaucer moves to Aldgate and is appointed the port of Lon don舗s controller of customs for wool, skins, and hides. King Edward awards Chaucer a gallon pitcher of wine daily for life for loyal service.
Set against the background of the Trojan War, the poem depicts a passionate and ultimately tragic love affair. Chaucer created in Criseyde a woman whose complexity of character and motive has fascinated and disturbed modern readers. She may also have disturbed some of Chaucer舗s contemporaries, or at least he pretended that she did, for in The Legend of Good Women舒a collection of short tales about women betrayed by men, preceded by a prologue in the form of a dream vision舒the poet must defend himself against an angry God of Love (depicted as a king, sharing some traits with Chaucer舗s sovereign, Richard II), who accuses him of slandering women by his portrait of Criseyde.
But his garden harbors a serpent, Damyan, hidden by May in a tree into which she climbs with her blind husband舗s assistance, a symbolic enactment of how his imprudence and impercipience have contributed to his being cuckolded. 舡 So if the tale舗s message is that January舗s imprudence makes him the certain victim of May舗s schemes and mendacity, it seems also to be saying that blind or sighted (that is, imprudent or prudent), men cannot escape the wiles of women (especially their verbal wiles). Justinus and Pluto know the bitter truth about women and marriage, but they cannot open January舗s eyes to his folly; by implication, the misogynistic, misogamous message of 舠The Merchant舗s Tale舡 will go similarly unheeded.