Critical Insights: The Canterbury Tales

Considered one the English language's most masterful works, Geoffrey Chaucer's series of tales has managed to stay relevant and prominent for more than six hundred years. The essays in this set discuss several individual tales including, The Knight's Tale, the recurring use of irony in The Merchant's Tale, a feminist reading of The Wife of Bath's Tale, the idea of gender and eroticism in The Miller's Tale, and the anti-Semitism and representation of the Jews in The Prioress' Tale.