Tag: Chaucer

  • The Wife of Bath

    I studied this story, one part of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, for A level and I remember we were all surprised and more than a little uncomfortable with how bawdy the Wife of Bath was. We didn’t quite know how to deal with it! I have just been to an event in the Oxford Literary Festival […]

  • Reading the classics …

    … well, being forced to actually. Wandering around my local Waterstones recently, I noticed a whole section on exam notes of various kinds: 11+ practice, SATs revision and various parts of the GCSE and A level English syllabi…syllabuses sounds more natural doesn’t it? Anyway, I had a look and found that all the literature was […]