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Female Characters in the “General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales”

On: March 21, 2025

Primarily, there are two women characters introduced in the General Prologue of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales: the Prioress and the Wife of Bath. Critics have often categorized both of them as “misfits” – women unfit for the role they represent. This is obvious, considering the fact that the GeneralContinue Reading

General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales

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On: March 21, 2025

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Although the genre of the Canterbury Tales as a whole is a “frame narrative,” the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales is an example of “Estates Satire,” a genre which satirizes the abuses that occur within the three traditional Estates into which medieval feudal society was traditionally divided. Referring to the hierarchal structure of the medieval society, theContinue Reading