The Merchant's Tale
In the face of vociferous protestations from his friends, age-withered January selects a radiant young wife. His beloved—innocence embodied, to the untrained eye—wastes little time acquainting herself with his servants. Taking advantage of her husband’s blindness, she explores her carnal appetite with his footman, with little regard for dignity. Chaucer’s genius is to elevate her transgression to the level of gender politics; as deities intervene to decide the plight of future man and woman, the full import of January and May’s relationship is revealed.
FictionLiteraryPoetryEuropeanEnglish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
RELEASED2011
PUBLISHERHesperus
LENGTH84
LANGUAGEEN
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Geoffrey Chaucer was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales. Sometimes called the father of English literature, Chaucer is credited by some scholars as the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer
The Merchant's Tale
In the face of vociferous protestations from his friends, age-withered January selects a radiant young wife. His beloved—innocence embodied, to the untrained eye—wastes little time acquainting herself with his servants. Taking advantage of her husband’s blindness, she explores her carnal appetite with his footman, with little regard for dignity. Chaucer’s genius is to elevate her transgression to the level of gender politics; as deities intervene to decide the plight of future man and woman, the full import of January and May’s relationship is revealed.
FictionLiteraryPoetryEuropeanEnglish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
RELEASED2011
PUBLISHERHesperus
LENGTH84
LANGUAGEEN
Geoffrey Chaucer was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales. Sometimes called the father of English literature, Chaucer is credited by some scholars as the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer
