The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale

Hi everyone,

Juan has found a very good website with an interlinear translation of "The wife of Bath´s" tale and prologue. It will be a lot easier to read!! Read both for Wednesday.

http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/teachslf/wbt-par.htm

Thank you Juan!!
Claudia

The Canterbury Tales

Dear all,

For next session, please visit the following link http://www.librarius.com/ and read "The Wife of Bath´s Tale", which is one of the tales that makes up The Canterbury Tales.

Wednesday class will be entirely devoted to this tale, so please read it.

See you,
Claudia

Chaucer

Dear all,


In the following link you´ll find a short poem by G. Chaucer. It´s been "translated" into readable English, so you shouldn´t have any problems reading it.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/truth-2/

Why do you think Chaucer called this poem "truth"?

What does he mean by "for greed entails hate and social climbing uncertainty? How does it apply to the present world?

What are the religious implications of this poem?

How do you feel after reading it? Does it make sense to you, to your life?

Post your answers and or comment (150 words) before Friday.


See you,
Claudia