ENGL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Geoffrey Chaucer
26 Feb 2018
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The text: the power of the written word the emergence of the ways in which it is emerging through the members of society, what control should the text have over people of society. Storytelling: represents the ways in which stories and tales did circulate. Towards the end of the medieval period a book market is birthed, where folk can buy manuscripts: she is hit by her husband the sexual political policies of literature (written by men for men) The framed narrative represent women. he will do whatever she wants (answer = sovereignty) Variety of christian vernacular medieval drama in which local guilds assemblies of tradesmen preform the (cid:498)mystery cycle(cid:499) or narratives from the creation, through. Christ"s birth, life, and death, to the last judgement: the play depicts manual labour as complete fools (cid:498)the romans(cid:499) irony.
