"God bad us for to wexe and multiplye" : voci iperboliche nei Canterbury Tales

In the literary context of the late fourteenth-century London, a group of pilgrims sets off to the shrine of St Thomas à Beckett, in Canterbury. The journey gives each of them the possibility to interact with their fellow travellers and to express their individual feelings and thoughts, their interiority and imaginative world as well as their wordly experience, with its contradictory values, its tensions between feudalism and urban culture, its complex social relationships. This pilgrimage becomes the perfect setting for the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner, two of the most complex and verbally aggressive characters of the Canterbury Tales.