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8 Cards in this Set
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Mutual love between spouses is notably absent |
H.A Kelly |
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All good feelings Chaucer's audience might have about love and marriage are demolished |
Jay Schleusener |
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January shops for his bride |
Stephanie A. Tolliver |
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Dimly misogynistic and bitter... a story intending to show the deceitfulness of women |
Martin Stevens |
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Cynical condemnation of courtly convention |
David L. Shores |
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January's bending of religious authority to his own selfish purposes leaves religion untouched but adds to our sense of delusion and error |
John Thorne |
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Chaucer's garden in this tale is no longer a place of courtly love or intellectual debate, but of lust and sexuality |
Laura Varnam |
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We are left to believe that a level of happiness is possible through folly and self deception |
Norman T. Harrington |
