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Bonnie Wheeler, a slender, long-haired blonde of 28, does not like flying, so she always takes an aisle seat and avoids looking out the window. "I'm a Chaucerian, and I don't quite believe that planes are licit," she says. She recalls that Geoffrey Chaucer, in The House of Fame, described his own feeling of panic when a great golden eagle carried him off into the skies. "The eagle flies Geoffrey around on his back, and tries to show him all the marvelous things there are in the world. All Geoffrey says to each new sight...
...prescient forebear of Ruether and Daly saw no problem in Jesus' manhood. Nor did she seem rattled by masculine pronouns for God. Lady Julian of Norwich, an anchoress who lived in Chaucerian England in the 14th century, laid out her prophetic theology in a book called Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love. "God, Almighty, is our kindly Father," wrote Lady Julian. "God, all-Wisdom, is our kindly Mother." As for the Second Person in the Blessed Trinity-the Person incarnated in Jesus Christ-Lady Julian found that he was strongly feminine: "our Mother in kind, in whom we are grounded...
With the pious tales Bergreen is somewhat less at ease. The Pardoner's Tale is a Chaucerian masterpiece because of the power of the image of the old man who waylays the three revelers on their way to conquer death. The old man in the original is the grim figure of death himself. On stage, the impact of his appearance is lost. It is an impossible task for an actor to become death, or the emblem of death. On the printed page, the image is a powerful one. On stage, the figure becomes faintly comic...
CANTERBURY TALES. Four of Geoffrey Chaucer's tales are told in this musical import from London. Unfortunately, the Chaucerian spirit is largely missing. Sex is treated as a commodity and faith as an epilogue, in the manner of a Cecil B. De-Mille devotional epic...
CANTERBURY TALES. Four of Geoffrey Chaucer's tales are told in this musical import from London. Unfortunately, the Chaucerian spirit is largely missing. Sex is treated as a commodity and faith as an epilogue, in the manner of a Cecil B. De-Mille devotional epic...