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** The Prioress used to be thought of as the target of fairly light mockery, but in part due to the violently anti-Semitic tale she tells, modern critics have found evidence of a more condemnatory intent. This may well, however, be a case of [[Values Dissonance]].
** Terry Jones (yes, ''[[Monty Python|that]]'' [[Monty Python and The Holy Grail|Terry Jones]]) wrote a book, ''Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary,'' arguing that far from being an ideal hero, the Knight was actually an amoral mercenary, and intended as a [[Take That]] against someone Chaucer knew.
*** Some indication of the factitiousness of Jones's theory may be grasped by his reference to [[The Teutonic Knights]]' "Crusade" in Prussia as having attracted a great deal of criticism, thus discrediting the Knight, who had fought there. Though the Teutonic Knights' Polish enemies ''had'' denounced the Prussian campaign, it is highly unlikely that Chaucer would have endorsed their opinion, even indirectly, since his own [
** From the opposite ideological angle, while "The Franklin's Tale" comes across to a modern audience as a positive argument for equality and respect in marriage, some have argued that Chaucer intended these features to represent ''a bad marriage''. The franklin is compared to Epicurus in terms of being something of a glutton, and at the time the philosopher was also known as representing evil atheistic sentiments, but he still wins his argument with the Nun's Priest and the Wife of Bath.
* [[Anvilicious]]
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