Geoffrey Chaucer & Company Presents
Lawyer’s Tale
A tale of love in the face of intolerance
7 actors - 2 hours
The Lawyer’s Tale is crafted around romantic love that gets caught in the grip of prejudice and religious intolerance. In this
Christian romance, religions collide with painful and sometimes fatal results when young Constance is sent off to be married to the recently converted Sultan of
Syria. Her powerful mother-in-law is not pleased with this turn of events and resorts to violence. Faced head-on with hatred and intolerance, young Constance’s
faith and endurance are put to the test. This is only the beginning of her trials, however. Driven from what was to be her home and after years adrift at sea,
Constance finds a new home, new trials of her faith, a beloved husband, and another intolerant mother-in-law. In the Lawyer’s Tale, Chaucer presents us with two
sides of the same coin by using two different storytelling levels: the prejudice and hatred aimed at the protagonist and a more subtle suggestion of prejudice on
the part of Sir Lawyer himself.
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