And the lion says, well, if that image had been painted by a lion, it would show a very different outcome.
And then she says in this wonderful moment.
Found inside – Page 128The Cook's Prologue . ... the parsley served up with the Cook's geese . Tyrwhitt quotes from MS . Harl . ... The fact is , that there is 128 NOTES TO THE CANTERBURY TALES . ( Group A. THE COOK'S PROLOGUE THE COOK'S PROLOGUE. Does that make you a nothing? Found inside – Page 5... The Canterbury Tales • 45 Fragment I • 45 The General Prologue • 47 The Knight's Tale • 63 The Miller's Prologue • 97 The Miller's Tale • 98 The reeve's Prologue • 109 The reeve's Tale • 110 The Cook's Prologue • 117 The Cook's Tale ... Mary: Yes.
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Found inside – Page 181And with his speche the Cook wax angry and Is that a cook of Londoune , with meschaunce ? wraw , Do him come forth , he knoweth his penaunce ; And on the Maunciple bygan he nodde fast For he schal telle a tale , by my fay , For lak of ... Found inside – Page 20174 But , the author notes in his naive " Chaucer - the - pilgrim ” voice , the cook had an ulcerous sore on his shin . According to urban rules ... 74 Chaucer , “ General Prologue ” to The Canterbury Tales , description of the Cook . Found inside – Page 40Summary The cook is mightily entertained by the story the Reeve told and wants to tell a funny story of his own. However, the Host reminds the Cook, who is named Hodge of Ware, that he owes the company a good tale since food he prepares ... I suppose I just think that the whole tale is something of a fantasy.
And then right at the very end, the Wife has this final couplet where she says, I begrudge husbands who won't be governed by their wives. He's disgusted by her old body, by her poverty. So we have this image of the cat with its skin that's been singed.
Mary: I think it's important to say that the sheer range of her references is impressive in itself.
I think we would have trouble even looking in the 1980s or one decade ago and finding someone was perfectly feminist by today's past.
Every single person in heaven – well, in the scriptures at any rate – is also flawed. Right at the beginning, it's the queen who intervenes. But maybe you can get along anyway. And the characters are pilgrims from every walk of life. Mary: So should we see the Wife as this somewhat unpleasant manipulator or a very shrewd operator who's gaming a patriarchal system and making it work for her as best she can? For highlights from the latest issue, our archive and the blog, as well as news, events and exclusive promotions. One of the things to perhaps say at this point is if you had heard or read the Wife’s prologue at this point, you are probably expecting her to tell an earthy colloquial story, perhaps one that involves what scholars term a medieval fablieau, something that probably involves sex, some kind of bed trick, something perhaps like the Reeve’s Tale or the Miller’s Tale.
Irina: Well, in that moment that's when I wonder if it's worth really reading the character as a realistic character.
Mary: And where does she fit into the Canterbury Tales generally? So that's the surprise, that he's actually punished, sentenced and punished for his crime. And ‘God help me, I was a lusty one, fair, rich young, well dispositioned.
Irina: I think it's fair to say that Alisoun of Bath is Chaucer's best known character. So then in that sense, the deafness might be a little bit symbolic, but I reject that.
The marriage is abusive in both directions at this moment. But you're thinking of her body, right?
And throughout the prologue we have, as you say, this vivid sense of her own body. There's this really wonderful passage when Alisoun is talking about the book that Jankyn has, the so-called book of wicked wives.
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But with Jankyn it's different, there's real passion there. Irina: Well, that depends what you think the relationship of the story is to her. And sometimes I try to read the story in a way that upsets me less, and I like to imagine that maybe the old woman at the end and the young woman are actually the same, that because she is a fairy, she is a shapeshifter, that could be the case.
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She's always reminding us this is what experience is really like for most people. But also the idea that you can be old and poor and disgusting in the eyes of men, and yet still somehow transform into something, into a woman that they find appealing and are delighted to be with.
I'm not sure any person would really talk that way outside of a text or a university.
Found insideWas there really a reeve named Oswald in the little town of Baldeswell in Norfolk ( Prologue , 1. ... out when he is chaffing the Cook on his Jacks of Dover , and the Cook answers : “ Thou seist ful sooth , quod Roger , “ by my fey ! I’ve talked to others as well, other women who say they do not feel that they are the age they are inside, they are still young and the outside is a surprise. Irina: Oh, but Mary, I just love the next bit. I think that's often the thing I wonder about with the Wife of Bath.
Whether it's Mary Magdalene or Peter or any old figure from the Old Testament, it's really not hard. And only when Christ comes out does she beg for mercy. I hadde the prente of Seinte Venus seel.As help me God, I was a lusty oon,And faire, and riche, and yong, and wel bigon,And trewely as myne housbondes tolde me,I hadde the beste quoniam myghte be. Look, not everything can be gold. The scene between Arcite and Palamon when they see Emilie walking in the garden below their locked tower prison is one of the most lyrical and elevated scenes in all the Tales.
But the last time I taught it, I came to see it a little bit differently, partly through conversation with students.
And then she says this lovely aside: and he was only twenty and I was forty, but as I shall say, I had always 'a coltes tooth'.
Materialism is closely related to physicalism—the view that all that exists is ultimately physical. They do it in secret because he's so ashamed.
And the characters are pilgrims from every walk of life. And I think the word ‘gloss’ wouldn't have taken on those meanings if there wasn't a sense that glossing is already something that can be potentially deceitful.
But also what's interesting is the way that in the fifteenth century scribes clearly wanted to reframe it and change this poem. It begins with a knight, a noble knight, who finds a maiden unguarded and rapes her.
Mary: Join us next time, when we'll be talking about late medieval England's most boisterous female mystic, Margery Kempe. And that – maybe it's wishful thinking – I think the reason why I like the idea of this being by Chaucer and being part of his vision for Alisoun of Bath is that that's precisely the kind of seduction she would employ. Found inside – Page 28There is good reason to doubt the effectiveness of adding further tales from each pilgrim. Often the impact of a tale is directly related to the character of its narrator; tale and teller are inextricably linked, as in the cases of the ...
She's torpedoing the seeming moral of the tale she's just told.
The description of the Franklin’s table is a lavish poetic tribute to hospitality and luxury. Composed in the 1390s, it is a beast fable and mock epic based on an incident in the Reynard cycle. And then she delivers this extraordinary kind of sermon, I suppose. And there's a fascinating manuscript in the Egerton collection in the British Library where the scribe appears to have added their own glosses. Whereas he knows that an old wife will be true to him. So I had always a youthful appetite, 'gat-tothed I was and that bicam me weel'. It's something that educated men do with difficult texts.
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Maybe it's good enough. The marrying seems to be more important in her life than the making cloth.
So it's a bit disturbing to me.
I think she's a kind of Chaucerian performance which has elements which really feel like a real person, and other moments which feel like reading a book, a treatise in a book.
And then we get this happy ending, which is a little bit... we could talk about how we feel about the happy ending, where she says, ‘cast up the curtain, look how that it is’. There are a whole load of ballads, one called the Wanton Wife of Bath. It serves as a framework for the poem and depicts the life of Renaissance England. Chaucer modeled this after Boccaccio’s Decameron but added more insight to the work by his genuine humor and humanism. She has this other beautiful passage where she's talking about virginity versus the married life or the imperfect life, and I’ll just read a short passage.
Yes. But the sense that the written text can offer these extraordinary imaginative possibilities... so there's something interesting about the way here within this imaginative frame we have these texts interleaved within this other text.
She's basically saying to her early husbands, look, I can have sex with other men because there will still be enough for you. The Haberdasher, Carpenter, Weaver, Dyer, and Tapestry-Weaver are not individualized, and they don’t tell their own tales.
She's not going to be anyone's perfect model of anything.
And also in what is editorially titled the General Prologue, at the beginning we have this very vivid description of her broad hips and the clothing that she's wearing. She's also a jokester, an extrovert, someone who knows the remedies of love.
I think implied in that is also that women want power over themselves, because usually the husband would be the more powerful partner.
He has to understand why what he did was wrong and he has to make it right. There's a prioress, there's a knight, there's a pardoner, a nun's priest, a cook, and also the Wife of Bath, who is an ordinary middle-class woman. And she presents that as working quite well for her, that she can manipulate them. So I think what she's doing reading ancient texts, reading the Bible especially, reading scripture and using it to prove that married life is still valuable and is still good in its way, that's exactly what a man would have done as well.
Study Guide for The Canterbury Tales. Found inside – Page 26Tales with No Source: Sir Thopas, Squire, and Cook In their chapter in Sources and Analogues on the Canon's Yeoman's ... of a primary source,” and for this reason they consider it “extraordinary among the Canterbury Tales” (S&A, 2.716). So there's a sense that women have always been threatened and continue to be threatened by men who do not see them as people, who do shame to them or dishonour to them.
I think – can I say this?
It's not a simple seduction.
'That al myn herte I yaf unto his hoold'.
Mary: ‘Nobility’.
So I think there's a certain elegance to the fact that a female court, a court of the queen and her ladies give him a punishment which will force him to learn why what he did was wrong. That's why ‘gloss’ means also deceit.
So you have to imagine Chaucer's audience, and then imagine the Canterbury pilgrims figuratively, and now we're imagining her performing the wise old woman for younger women who have to learn how to manipulate their husbands.
The Cursed Carolers in Context - Page 51 What I find disturbing is the fact that the young woman at the beginning is never heard from again.
So I do think Chaucer was moving towards a figure who perhaps only manipulatively gives these glimpses of herself and her inner life and her fantasy life which are disturbing, which aren't easy to take and which have a masochistic element that certainly doesn't fit neatly into Alisoun of Bath as the empowered businesswoman who has managed to gain authority through her marriages.There's always, I think with her, a sense of vulnerability and almost a sense of loss of control or potential loss of control. Thank you so much, Irina. And it seems to be all part of this ridiculous fantasy in, oh well, imagine in fairyland, the women get to decide what happens. If you look at the Wife of Bath’s prologue, it's full of inconsistencies. Her main two occupations seem to be making cloth and marrying. You really get a sense of her. And what the Wife tells is very much not in that vein.
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Mary: I suppose I just feel like it is in fairyland, whether it's the Wife or whether it's Chaucer that seems to be saying this could never actually happen.
She's going to play with them, and she's going to play with them for the amusement of the pilgrims. Later, he was influential in the forming of both the Nelson Aeroclub and Cook Strait Airways. Irina: One of the best known early modern ballads about her is called the Wanton Wife of Bath. And then it's quite interesting. And then he feels really bad for her and they make up and he gives her control of everything again. Found inside – Page 76Because Robin the Miller holds his nose too high , the nose of his surrogate , the arrogant Symkyn , gets broken ... in the Canterbury Tales details of physical descriptions begin to have narrative consequences ' ( p 77 ) . Cover letter travel industry write physics biography. And she stays that way and they have mutually satisfying marital relations and live happily ever after. But that introduces the second question, which I think in the Middle Ages was an important and vital one for so many people, which was how do you live with yourself when you know you can't be perfect?
Irina: Well, I think it's always a mistake to try to look for someone who's feminist by today's standards in the past.
In the fourth marriage she has a quite cruel husband who really is a drunkard, who really does cheat on her, who really does all of the things that the other men didn't do but she convinced them that they did. Found inside – Page 27The narrator begins by promising to describe his companions fully according to their physical appearance, ... is said about the Manciple's looks, or the Parson's, and the physical detail about the Cook is limited to an ulcer on the leg. And she's the person who tells them to their face, you did this, you did that. She just managed to convince them that they had, when inebriated, been absolutely terrible to her. She plays a lot on the word glosen, or ‘glossing’. Mary: But for the knight it all works out perfectly, and he gets this beautiful young wife and she obeys him in everything. So, ‘I had the print of St.Venus's seal.’ You get the sense she's not worshipping Christian saints, for her Venus is her patron Saint. You need some people who aren't virgins to give birth to more babies who can then be virgins! So in Troilus and Criseyde there’s this wonderful moment when Chaucer throughout that poem talks constantly about his sources, and he uses this as a little shield to hide behind. Mary: Yes.
He runs across an old woman. Christ is the only really perfect person. It's set in the time of King Arthur, in this time when fairies filled the land. And I think the Wife knows that to some extent. You had multiple wives, you killed so-and-so, you denied Christ. She only talks about her sex work and her marriages. So I think there's a little bit of fantasy that the justice works, that the punishment works, that he learns how to listen to women and how to give them mastery over their own body. And I always think it's one of Chaucer’s great jokes that the knight, who's right at the beginning, who's this noble character who we're expecting a real stonking story from, and it's kind of boring, the story! So the Parliament of Fowles begins with him reading this standard work on medieval dream theory, the Dream of Scipio. You're not going to lock yourself up in a little cell like an anchorite, like Julian of Norwich from the last episode. When people explain older texts, they're always explaining them to their own ends. There's a sense of wistfulness about the way she looks back on her youth and the energy and beauty she enjoyed. She says, would you rather that I am old and always faithful to you, or that I am young and hot but I am unfaithful? In the third episode in their series, Irina and Mary discuss Chaucer's sexually voracious professional widow, stealth preacher, vivid storyteller and teacher of love, the Wife of Bath. But I think it's most powerful in Chaucer’s version because it's preceded by a rape. And throughout the prologue we have these other characters interrupting her and saying, well, I'm not sure I see it this way.
Mary, how do you feel about this ending? Maybe you could do your lord service, maybe you can have a good life. Found inside – Page 119Abstract: Diseased skin and moral deviance are key characteristics of the Cook in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, ... This essay reads the Cook's physical characteristics as potential symptoms of leprosy, not to definitively diagnose the ... And by the end you feel that you know her, although it's a little bit of a trick!
Irina: I've always had problems with the tale as well. And suddenly he finds himself being adjudicated by a group of women, a group of noble women who are giving him a second chance to live. And what he gets in the end is this hot young wife who obeys him. Within each layer there's this little moral and a little sermon inside each layer. And we see this trend in the fifteenth century across a huge number of manuscript witnesses. In the first episode of their new podcast miniseries looking at the lives and voices of medieval women, Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley encounter Saint Mary of Egypt, who (if she existed) lived... Enzo Traverso talks to Adam Shatz about his new book on the history of revolutionary passions, images and ideas, from the rebellion of self-liberated slaves in Haiti in 1791 to Stalin’s top-down... Helen and David talk to Cindy Yu, host of the Chinese Whispers podcast, about the trajectory of Chinese politics. 'Clene' there could mean clean, but it could also mean good and pure and wonderful. She would have been on Broadway with a season ticket if she had lived in New York! And yet what's interesting is she’s such a popular character, she's really entered the popular imagination in a way that no other character from the Canterbury Tales has and no other character created by Chaucer has. She means you should have another man ready. But her point is they never actually said any of these things. And this is a trope. And so is she some kind of wonderful trailblazing proto-feminist activist, or is she just a straight-up unpleasant person? Maybe it's a fantasy even today.
She's a figure in the Canterbury Tales, introduced along with the other pilgrims in the General Prologue. And I love that as a popular expression of her appeal, which is that no one is perfect.
She actually talks about her genitals as her instrument. The Canterbury Tales as they stand today appear, by the Host’s explanation of the game, to be incomplete: each pilgrim is supposed to tell two tales on the way there and on the way back, yet not every pilgrim gets even one tale, and they don’t make it to Canterbury, let alone back.
Men did the same thing.
People talk about her deafness as being a symbol for how she doesn't understand scripture. I think it's hard to read it and not be disturbed to some extent by it. That's her seduction. And there's a terrifying moment when the old hag says that she wants to marry the knight and he's horrified, and he says, let my body go. Mary: And Chaucer did the same thing. The narrator’s approval of their pride in material displays of wealth is clearly satirical.
And in quite an ironic way she as a character has been stripped out of the context of the tales themselves, which is kind of ironic. Real people can't! And that's a little bit of a question if this young man is mature enough to appreciate that! She mourns at one point in her prologue her old age, that she used to be young and beautiful, that she used to sing well and dance, and get drunk and get all lusty because of the alcohol and so on. She begins almost like a preacher to take on a very important question in Christianity, which is how do you live the perfect life? You should have another husband ready, another opportunity, another way to be financially certain and safe. Not always best loved, but by many also best loved. Which is a good business move, if you're gathering capital, to marry rich old men! She talks about biting and whinnying like a horse. There's still a sense that her experience has left scars on her body, scars on her soul.
That is a quite a bookish section.
And so already Chaucer is playing with our expectations, and that's something that we see in the Canterbury Tales generally.
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