Chaucer for today
The General Prologue and The Nun's Priest's Tale
Sections of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales frequently feature on A Level syllabuses. The Tales and the descriptions of their tellers are funny and inventive, particularly coming to life when read aloud as they were originally intended. Because Chaucer was portraying the jobs and personality types familiar to his medieval hearers it helps to get a window into the world that they knew.
- How much of a say did women have in that society?
- Why were people in the Middle Ages so fussed about death and judgement?
- Why did they accept that some were superior to because of their birth?
- Why was the Church so influential in people’s day to day lives?
Quick solutions to the questions
The latest helpful student resources from Crossref-it.info this week are focused on The General Prologue and The Nun's Priest's Tale and link you to all the most helpful sections of the website. If you are studying or teaching either work look out for:
Context links: The General Prologue
Context links: The Nun's Priest's Tale
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