Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales demonstrate many different attitudes toward and perceptions of marriage. Some of these ideas are very traditional, such as that discussed in the Franklin's Tale, and others are more liberal such as the marriages portrayed in the Miller's and the Wife of Bath's Tales. While several of these tales are rather comical, they do indeed give us a representation of the attitudes toward marriage at that time in history. D.W. Robertson, …
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…thereof, we have seen Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales portray the concept of marriages in several different ways. Bibliography Works Cited Chaucer, Geoffrey. "The Canterbury Tales". The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Ed. F.N. Robinson. CambridgeRiverside Press, 1933. 19-314. Huppe, Bernard F. A Reading of the Canterbury Tales. AlbanyState University of New York, 1964. Robertson, D.W. (1962). "Concepts of Pilgrimage and Marriage". Critical Essays on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Ed. M. Andrew. 1st ed. BuckinghamOpen University Press, 1991. 87-90.