The anti-antifeminist Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales Written during the fourteenth century, The Canterbury Tales, by portraying the Christian pilgrimage, represents the medieval lives of noble and lower class. ... Rich in the worldly wisdom, therefore, he on the one hand satirizes the wickedness and hypocrisy of humanity by means of the presentation of The Canterbury Tales. ... "The Knight's Tale," "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale," "The Miller's Prologue and Tale," and "The Clerk's Prologue and Tale," for example, grant a close sight to the marriage and male-...

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This is evident in Top Girls, where Marlene has thrown a dinner party to celebrate her promotion and has invited Isabella Bird (1831-1904), Lady Nijo (b.1258), Dull Gret (1562), Pope Joan (854-856) and Griselda (Canterbury Tales). ...

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