Gender
True or False: May completely subverts January's authority and gains her own freedom by the end of the poem
What is FALSE?
Provide an example from The Merchant's Tale of a way that male authority and power is already called into question before the tale even begins.
What is:
"Wepyng and waylyng, care and oother sorwe
I knowe ynogh, on even and a-morwe,"
Quod the Marchant, "and so doon other mo
That wedded been. I trowe that it be so For wel I woot it fareth so with me. I have a wyf, the worste that may be;
(ll. 1213-1218)
Explain and provide a quotation for Proserpina's reason for taking issue with Solomon's teaching
What is:
What make ye so muche of Salomon?
What though he made a temple, Goddes hous?
What though he were riche and glorious?
So made he eek a temple of false goddis.
How myghte he do a thyng that moore forbode is?
Pardee, as faire as ye his name emplastre,
He was a lecchour and an ydolastre,
And in his elde he verray God forsook;
(2292-99)
Explain and provide a quotation for why Tony spoiled their plot to deceive Mrs. Hardcastle about Custance's jewels
What is:
TONY: But I tell you, Miss, it's of all the consequence in the world. I would not lose the rest of it for a guinea. Here, mother, do you make it out. Of no consequence!
Give two examples of things May does that are funny and explain why
- Standing on January's back to get into the pear tree
- Claiming that she must wrestle with a man in the tree to get him his sight back
Something Kate Hardcastle says that demonstrates the nature of her relationship with her father, Mr. Hardcastle
What is "You know our agreement sir."
(Act 1, Scene 1, l. 109, p. 22)
Name and quote a critic that discusses how January will never see his marriage for what it truly is
What is "With a mind clouded by ignorance of himself and of eternal values, Januarie will always see 'through a glass darkly,' never accepting that his marriage is not, and cannot be, the paradise he had imagined it to be. Januarie is eventually given vision which forces him to a knowledge of his situation which he turns away from and forget."
(Angela M. Lucas, 1998)
Fill in the blank:
Chaucer was born into a family of ______________.
What is wine merchants?
Something Kate says that describes her plan to continue allowing Marlow to believe she is not who she seems
What is "I'll still preserve the character in which I stooped to conquer, but will undeceive my papa, who, perhaps, may laugh him out of his resolution." (Act 4, Scene 1, l. 272-274)
The subject Dr. Kask studied for almost two years before she changed to studying English
What is Psychology, Biology, or Biochemistry?
Name another work written by Chaucer that is NOT the Canterbury Tales
What is...Troilus and Criseyde, Anelida and Arcite, The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls......?
Dr. Kask has two undergraduate degrees. English is the first one. What is the second one?
What is Philosophy?
What do Tony's friends at the pub call him that emphasizes how he does not truly belong there either?
What is "The Squire"?
Name at least three images we can use to discuss May's deception/rebellion
- the wax key
- the pear tree
- the letter
- the garden
Name and quote a critic that speaks about Tony Lumpkin's role as a humorous character in the play
"...Tony Lumpkin, hilarious problem-child of Mrs. Hardcastle" (John Harrington Smith)
Something that Hastings says while discussing that Marlow cannot speak to high-class women
What is, "But in the company of women of reputation I never saw such an idiot, such a trembler; you look for all the world as if you wanted an opportunity of stealing out of the room" (Act 2, Scene 1, ll.)?
Explain and quote a moment where Mr. Hardcastle's authority is undermined
What is...
HARDCASTLE: Diggory, you are too talkative. Then if I happen to say a good thing, or tell a good story at table, you must not all burst out a-laughing, as if you made part of the company.
DIGGORY: Then ecod your worship must not tell the story of Ould Grouse in the gun-room: I can't help laughing at that—he! he! he!—for the soul of me. We have laughed at that these twenty years—ha! ha! ha!
HARDCASTLE: Ha! ha! ha! The story is a good one. Well, honest Diggory, you may laugh at that—but still remember to be attentive. Suppose one of the company should call for a glass of wine, how will you behave? A glass of wine, Sir, if you please
(to Diggory)
—Eh, why don't you move?
Name and quote a critic who comments on the role social class plays in She Stoops to Conquer
Who is Simon Bubb, "By taking Londoners out of the city and putting them into the alien territory of the country, the playwright is able to create the perfect conditions for confusion and comic catastrophe.”?
And
Who is Laurence Williams? "Kate embodies a union of city sophistication and country virtues"
Name and quote a critic that discusses Proserpina's role in May's deception
What is:
"Proserpina reveals this gift of defensive rhetoric in an angry tirade that, in the words of the medieval rhetorician Geoffrey of Vinsauf, "sears with its fire." She defiantly responds "Ye shal? . . . wol ye so?" and, invoking a lineage of women who have come before her, bestows upon all women a gift of rhetoric that will protect them from masculine violence. Her anger becomes the means through which she combats Pluto's misogyny. "Proserpina's Gift" of rhetoric, which she grants to "alle wommen," helps May to assert agency within her relationship."
(Joseph Turner, 2016)
Name the state that Dr. Kask is from AND two states that border it.
What is Connecticut? and What is Massachusetts, Rhode Island, or New York?
Name and quote a critic that discusses May's power as a manipulator
What is:
"For May’s responsiveness to Damian’s advances reveals not a tender young maiden seeking balm for her bruised sensibilities, but a woman both hard-headed and hard-hearted, ready to seize any opportunity for her own advantage. It is, indeed, in this revelation that the tender, innocent victim is in fact a self-possessed manipulator of events that the story of January and May makes contact with that of Pluto and Proserpina."
(Jill Mann, 2002)
Something Placebo says that establishes him as a flatterer who cannot be trusted
What is
"...O Janurie, brother,
Ful litel nede hadded ye,
my lord so deere,
Conseil to axe of any that is heere,
But that ye been so ful of sapience
That yow ne liketh, for youre heighe prudence,
To weyven fro the word of Salomon"
(II. 266-271)
January thinks he will not go to heaven if he is too happy in his marriage. What does Justinus say to this concern that shows his exasperation?
What is:
Justinus, which that hated his folye, Answerde anon right in his japerye;
And for he wolde his longe tale abregge,
He wolde noon auctoritee allegge,
(ll. 1655-58)
Chaucer's first name
What is Geoffrey?
Another example of fabliau in The Canterbury Tales
What is The Miller's Tale, The Reeve's Tale, The Shipman's Tale, The Summoner's Tale, The Cook's Tale?