Gender and Marriage in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The Marriage Group

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Bonn, language: English, abstract: That he is a poet concerned with gender issues is obvious: almost every narrative in the Canterbury Tales deals with how the sexes relate to one another or envision one another (Laskaya 1995: 11). Of course Laskaya talks about Geoffrey Chaucer and his famous work The Canterbury Tales from the 14th century, which is an unfinished collection of tales told by a group of pilgrims. Even though Laskaya accounts The Canterbury Tales as rich in gender issues, this work concentrates on four specific prologues and tales, the so called Marriage Group . The work in hand is supposed to discuss gender-specific aspects and gender-relations in the context of medieval society using the example of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales .