... undisguised in their socially contrasting ideas regarding sex, other poets have offered more subtle subversions on this topic. Geoffrey Chaucer, for example, incorporated a variety of sexual acts within his works The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. His medieval audience would have generally qualified sex in either one of two basic understandings- either as an element of romance or marriage that represented love ... and female characters. Typically, in the extramarital affairs in The Canterbury Tales "the woman is invariably the strayer" (Haskell, 9). Obvious examples of this ...

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