If Chaucer makes a comeback in the proposed English curriculum rewrite, we shouldn’t dismiss what his work tells us about human nature – and contemporary New Zealand.
We have always wondered what was up there.
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The hero of The Green Knight, played brilliantly by Dev Patel, is flawed and less than honorable. The film is a deliberately unromantic exploration of the world of King Arthur and his court.
Was Chaucer a toxic misogynist, or a staunch women’s ally?
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Chaucer’s career as a secret agent helped him assume different disguises in his writing. Some scholars interpret this role-playing as Chaucer being sexist and anti-Semitic.
Roses are red, thieving birds are blue. My neck is aching, are you uncomfortable too?
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Poets and the wealthy were angered by those who saw their opportunity to rise above their station after the plague.
The Black Death inspired medieval writers to document their era of plague. Their anxieties and fears are starkly reminiscent of our own even if their solutions differ.
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From speaking out over domestic abuse in medieval times to telling the realities of war, these female poets present a very different version of Welsh life.