Examine Chaucer’s strategy of adapting Boccaccio’s Filostrato in
You must write a critical and interpretative 3,000-word essay with a strong thesis and coherent argument in answer to ONE of the following questions: 1. Write an essay on the function and characterisation of the narrator in two of Chaucer’s poems. 2. “She ys ded!” (BD 1309). Discuss the treatment of death and […]
Examine the sincerity or irony of Chaucer’s Retraction in light of
1. Write an essay on the tension between fabula and historia in The Clerk’s Tale. 2. Examine the sincerity or irony of Chaucer’s Retraction in light of fragments IX and X of The Canterbury Tales. Your essay must include relevant quotation from and reference to primary and secondary texts. You […]
