1. The Catholic Church and The Canterbury Tales
... much corruption with his characters, "He calls it ˜some comedy' at the end of Troilus and Criseyde by which he meant a work about ordinary people, written in plain style, having happy endings. " (Howard 402) Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales was not his only book written with hidden wit and irony to show hidden corruption. Although in medieval times he called it "some ... comedy ". It is only if one pays close attention to the detail Chaucer puts in this stories and characters where someone can understand the irony of his stories where he leaves hints to the ecclesiastical system's corrupt...
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