May — The Canterbury Tales Character Profile

About May

A young woman reluctantly married to the elderly Sir January. She secretly meets her lover Damian in a garden while her husband is blind, and successfully tricks him into believing he hallucinated their affair.

Character Facts

Played by

Josephine Chaplin

Appears in

The Canterbury Tales (1972)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (2)

• May — Family Husband — Sir January (Hugh Griffith)

  Sir January is the elderly, newly blind husband of the young May.

• May — Narrative Author — Geoffrey Chaucer (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

  Chaucer chronicles May's cunning survival tactics and romantic pursuits.

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