Chaucer and His Times
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Chaucer and His Times is by Grace E. Hadow, Lecturer in English, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. The text says we have to remember that the shrewish wife was as stock a comic convention of those days as the shrewish mother-in-law of later times. The text points to the Book of the Duchesse, in which mention is made of suffering for eight years from a sickness which one physician alone can cure, and says we have nothing to show that in these passages Chaucer is revealing his actual feelings.
The text says that in the Miracle Plays we find that mixture of shrewd common-sense and real feeling, of comedy and tragedy. The text says it was left for Chaucer to show the true meaning and value of the comic point of view.
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- Grace E. Hadow
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