ENG 3323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Roman Senate, Teseida, Palamon And Arcite
13 Sep 2016
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Oversee the mini-society that is set up in the pilgrimage. I will be the judge of the stories. Winner will get a meal paid for by everyone else. The tale of best sentence and moost solaas : most wisdom proverbial knowledge, entertaining, pleasure, or delight comfort. Governing how stories are exchanged between people. Act of story telling requires legal governance. Gives chaucer a way of saying things he may not have been able to say otherwise. Voices opinions that could have gotten him in trouble. Unrest in court of richard ii friends of chaucer = beheaded. Truth does not reside in the meaning of the tales itself, but instead in the style/act of performance. Task is to retell the tales exactly in the way that the tales were told. Has he learned about it from them: story is being told after the pilgrimage. Squire: fights on behalf of a woman, knight"s son.
