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... stories are battle - haunted also , and there is evil and treachery and horror and death in them ; yet the climate and ... story material circulating in the thirteenth to fourteenth centuries , the French poetical romance Le Roman de la ...
... stories are battle - haunted also , and there is evil and treachery and horror and death in them ; yet the climate and ... story material circulating in the thirteenth to fourteenth centuries , the French poetical romance Le Roman de la ...
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... story merely as a story : the impatient and headstrong young lover , the go - between , the irresistible young harlot offer few surprises and little intrinsic charm in their age - old game of amorous chess . They are in truth a bore ...
... story merely as a story : the impatient and headstrong young lover , the go - between , the irresistible young harlot offer few surprises and little intrinsic charm in their age - old game of amorous chess . They are in truth a bore ...
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... story ( which had appeared in English earlier : see above , p . 8 ) , the Gesta Romanorum contains the caskets episode used in The Merchant of Venice , the story of Constance used by Chaucer and Gower , and originals for certain lesser ...
... story ( which had appeared in English earlier : see above , p . 8 ) , the Gesta Romanorum contains the caskets episode used in The Merchant of Venice , the story of Constance used by Chaucer and Gower , and originals for certain lesser ...
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UNTIL CHAUCER I | 1 |
CHAUCER HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND | 14 |
POPULAR LITERATURE | 43 |
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