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The Canterbury Tales Critical Essay #2
In the following essay, Alexander examines the treatment of Jews and anti-Semitism in the "Prioress's Tale."
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history of the criticism of Chaucer's "Prioress's Tale" affords proof,
if proof be needed, that the attitudes and events of their own days affect how
critics read literature, even literature of the distant past. As Florence
Ridley notes, the question of anti-semitism in the "Prioress's Tale" has
in recent years become an important critical issue, to the extent that most
contemporary readings of the text seem to involve, explicitly or implicitly, a
response to this problem. The explanation is not far to seek. Critics cannot
view the "Tale" after the holocaust in quite the same way as they viewed
it before.
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