Near this work's beginning, its narrator tells the reader to skip over any offensive sections, while its final section is a "Retraction." One characte
Near this work's beginning, its narrator tells the reader to skip over any offensive sections, while its final section is a "Retraction." One character in this work gives a lengthy demonstration of how to harangue a husband, and says that she liked her fifth husband the best because he was best in bed. At the end of that section of this work, a husband yields "mastery" to his ugly wife, whereupon he removes a curtain and sees that she is now young and beautiful. In the second section of this poem, Theseus imprisons Palamon and Arcite, who then battle over Emily. For 10 points, name this long poem narrated by people like the Knight and the Wife of Bath, by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Near this work's beginning, its narrator tells the reader to skip over any offensive sections, while its final section is a "Retraction.
The Canterbury Tales