... . What is mostly seen in Chaucer's literature is that Chaucer writes about the people and situations in his society at his time. In the Canterbury Tales, Damrosch talks about the poem being the "culmination- of Chaucer's dramatic-poetic development of English speech; and something unaccountable new in mediaeval literature. ... the very first to introduce the French fabliaux, "the short, comic, frankly coarse, and often cynical take in verse- (Ross, 18). The Wife of Bath Tale is a fabliau, she has the vigor of the fabliau women, "ful of ragerye stiborn and strong and joly as a pye- (Ross, ...

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