General Prologue: IntroductionFragment I, lines 1-42SummaryWhan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote . . . (See Important Quotations Explained)The narrator opens the General Prologue with a description of the return of spring. He describes the April rains,...

IntroductionThe aim of this work is to present how men and women have been unequal in sexual freedom, unequal in sexual self-identity and unequal in moral value in the Middle Ages and the Victorian Age times in Western Europe. I will talk about how the non-sexuality of the \"good woman,\" (i.e. her ...