Lec 2

• Middle English


  The English which was used from about 1100 to about 1500 is
• The Canterbury Tales total altogether was about 17,000 lines
• Wife of Bath


  who was one of the most enjoyable characters in The Canterbury Tales?
• A good deal of Middle English prose is religious
• where was the first English performed that played and told religious stories?

  the churches
• what is the theme of the subjects of the miracle plays?

  religious
• what is the types of medieval drama?

  mystery plays - morality plays - the interlude
• what is a pageant?

  a kind of stage on wheels
• One of the best-known fifteenth-century Moralities is Everyman
• A priest who attacked many of the religious ideas of his time is John Wycliffe
• The greatest poet of the Middle English time was ?

  Geoffrey Chauce
• The characters in these were not people, they were virtues ?

  The morality plays
• The plays presented moral truths in a new and effective way?

  everyman
• Often several Miracle Plays were being performed at?

  The same time in different places
• Adam and Eve refers to what Plays?

  Miracle
• the greatest poet of the Middle English ?

  Geoffrey Chaucer 
• who was often called the father of English poetry?

  Geoffrey Chaucer