"I have a wyf, the worste that may be" - The representation of marriage in the Canterbury Tales

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 66 (A-), University of Warwick (Department of English), course: Medieval to Renaissance English Literature, language: English, abstract: “I have a wyf, the worste that may be,” says the merchant in his prologue of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (E.1218). However, in the beginning of the Frankli...