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Chaucer's proper romance

Troilus & Crysseide

^ read it by Chaucer & Shakespeare – comparing it – to get free form her part of examination

Romance de Troy

Troilus – young (15 y.o.)warrior, one day he goes to the temple and sees Crysseide

Crysseide – daughter of a traitor, her father was astrologist, and he saw fell of Troy so he defected to different country

Troy was beseeched at that time

It was hard for Troilus to get to Crysseide, but somehow he finds way to do this. Love was kept in secret. Greece wants to exchange prisoners.

Crysseide has to go and join her father. Troilus cannot meet her. She goes to her father (escorted by a Greek called Diomede). Crysseide told her father the truth but he didn't help her. She stays with Diomede). There's a final fight between Troy & Greek. Troilus dies, says the love of woman is not worth anything.

Legend of good women

^last Chaucer's romance

There are 2 prologues

1^st – Chaucer's house “I fell asleep in my garden”, he laughs that it's not romantic, wet grass, buzzing insects.

Hymn to a daisy (plant) the most beautiful flower.

2nd – he falls asleep in the garden and when he wakes up in the garden and sees Venus & writes about 15 women. He writes about Hedea and Yazo.

He worked 15 years on Canterbury Tales

Canterbury Tales

There are 29 + 1 pilgrims

Each of them has to tell 2 tales on the way there and 2 on the way back

Most amusing story will be given a free dinner

Nighthood, Man of the church, pheasants

• Written in a formula of story telling competition

• State satire

• Frame narrative (a story inside a story)

• April, ppl go on pilgrimages

• They met in Tabbard Inn

• They never get to Canterbury

• The last tale (the Parsons' tale) is boring, they tell him to hurry up

• Chaucer is critical towards pilgrimages

• From all states he idealises 1 person

• Chaucer likes the Prioress

• He dislikes the Pardoner

Pardoner's tale 'Exemplum' – story with a moral

They could give confessions and give absolutions. Person who got absolution had to buy relics.

'Love of money is a root of evil'

Knight's tale – chivalry romance – romans rycerski

Miller's tale is a parody of Knight's tale

Miller's tale – fablie – story with a moral when characters come from the lower layers of the society. It's funny and the humour is crude

1. What was Chaucer's motivation for writing Troilus & Crysseide, what is the message?

   1. Man shall not love woman

2. Two prologues to legend of good women

3. Estate satire

4. Chaucer's pilgrims

   1. without the lowest(pheasants without land) and highest (monarchy)

5. How is Canterbury tales organised into narrative

   1. Frame narrative

   2. conversations between the stories

   3. Funny → serious → funny → serious... tale

6. Themes and literally genres

Wife of Bath's tale

One of the first feminist English text

Breton lay – grail romance, opowieść bretani

The knight on errand is black character, he raped a virgin. King told that he should be executed but the queen tells him to go on the journey and find an answer to the question “what is that woman like the most” he finally finds ugly woman who tells him that woman want the most to rule the man.