...Joseph Turner Although scholars have historically minimized the relationship between medieval grammatical and rhetorical traditions and Chaucer's poetics, Proserpina's angry speech in the Merchant's Tale represents the intersection of medieval classroom grammar exercises, Geoffrey of Vinsauf's...

...Ken Eckert Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale has been well-mined for feminist and psychological issues but less criticism has analyzed the rhetorical techniques informing the wyf 's bedside harangue to the knight. These are shown to echo that of Lady Philosophy to Boethius in Chaucer's Boece ; close...