Shakespeare


SHAKESPEAR



            Through the perspectives of themes such as “Power” and “The Body”, one can argue that it is evidently the most consistent between the two eras in British Literature. Geoffrey Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales pushes extremities in the process with psychological play and manipulative characters. Characters in the tales which should be closely related to Jesus and Christianity are at the expense of humor, ironically intended for the literate crowd in the 9th Century which would be the clergy, Kinships between Kings and Knights, and possibly the lower class servants of those mentioned.  In The Millers Tale, Chaucer somewhat daunts at a character known in the tale as a incents-swinger that works in the church. However, the boy is ridiculed and finessed by both Alison Nicholay saying “God woot, my sweete lief”, “I have thee brought a ring”.  In this part of the tale, Absaolon the incense-swinge is aware that he has been fooled and does what no is absolutely horrendous through a Christ-like figure.

            The Body however is used as many ways to depict images of characters of power and of a lower social class. Power