Gender and Marriage in Geoffrey Chaucer's &quote;Canterbury Tales.&quote; The &quote;Marriage Group&quote;

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Bonn, language: English, abstract: "e;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"e; (Laskaya 1995: 11). Of course Laskaya talks about Geoffrey Chaucer and his famous work "e;The Canterbury Tales"e; from the 14th century, which is an unfinished collection of tales told by a group of pilgrims. Even though Laskaya accounts "e;The Canterbury Tales"e; as rich in gender issues, this work concentrates on four specific prologues and tales, the so called "e;Marriage Group"e;. 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 "e;Canterbury Tales"e;.