Chaucer’s use of irony in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
In satire, there is the use of irony, humor, and exaggeration to criticize the foibles and vices of people. Chaucer …
In satire, there is the use of irony, humor, and exaggeration to criticize the foibles and vices of people. Chaucer …
The General Prologue was probably written early in the composition of the Canterbury Tales, and offers an interesting comparison point …
The Knight, the Sergeant at the Law, the Parson, the Plowman, and the Manciple are idealized by the narrator in …
It is said that Emperor Augustus had found Rome a city of brick a when he died he left it …
Chaucer is the greatest English story-teller in verse, ‘one of the world’s three or four story-tellers’ Lowes. Other writers have …
Chaucer has borrowed his subject-matter freely from other sources like Shakespeare. The Nun’s Priest’s Tale is no exception. The story …
Geoffrey Chaucer in The Nun’s Priest’s Tale has shown his ability to develop a skeleton plot into a good story. …
This gentil cok…..every lith. In these lines taken from Chaucer’s The Nun’s Priest’s Tale’, the family of the cock Chanticleer …
The narrative art of Chaucer finds its fullest expression in The Pardoner’s Tale. It is so gripping that it can …
Chaucer, like Shakespeare, has borrowed his material from the old sources and is, like him again, original. Shakespeare wrote the …