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| | British Literarture I - Study Guides |
 | | Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale,” “The Clerk’s Tale,” “The Merchant’s Tale,” “The Franklin’s Tale” | | | Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, “The Prioress’s Tale,” “The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale,” “Chaucer’s Retraction” (Handout) | | | Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, “The Knight’s Tale,” “The Miller’s Tale” |
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http://faculty.necc.mass.edu/gbailey/britguides.htm
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| | Context |
| | The host is well pleased at the standard of their tales, although he seems to have forgotten about the Monk, so he turns to the Parson to tell his story. | | | The Monk is due to tell the next tale, but the drunken Miller skips the queue and tells his story concerning a stupid Carpenter. | | | The Summoner is not concerned, for his tale is about a Friar, and any slight will be repaid in full. |
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http://www.bookwolf.com/Free_Booknotes/Canterbury_Tales_by_Geoffrey_C/Context-Canterbury_Tales_/context-canterbury_tales_.html
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| | Canterbury Tales TV Show - Canterbury Tales Television Show - TV.com |
| | Each tale was scripted by a different writer and like the original tales they embody the timeless themes of love, lust, greed, power, anger and bigotry. | | | The Canterbury Tales are Geoffrey Chaucer's tales updated to the present day. | | | Canterbury Tales TV Show - Canterbury Tales Television Show - TV.com |
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http://www.tv.com/canterbury-tales/show/21655/summary.html
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| | The Canterbury Tales Study Guide / The Canterbury Tales Summary |
| | The Canterbury Tales begin in April, as the narrator (Chaucer) begins a pilgrimage from the Tabard Inn at Southwerk to the famed Canterbury, where Sir Thomas a Becket, a martyr for Christianity, is supposedly buried. | | | The next pilgrim is the Parson, a man of honor and kindness who remains true to Christ and his congregation. | | | The strong-willed Wife of Bath also makes the journey to Canterbury, wears bright, ostentatious clothing for the ride and tells of her five marriages and multiple youthful partners in bed, striking intrigue and curiosity amongst the pilgrims on the journey. |
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http://www.bookrags.com/notes/ct/PART1.htm
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| | Essential Chaucer: General |
| | Presents the Canterbury Tales as an ongoing drama among the pilgrims, considering General Prologue, the tales, and especially the links among the tales as scenes or acts. | | | The Parson's Tale, as a sermon on penance, is a fitting conclusion to this multi-valenced journey, the only possible way to achieve the "Celestial City" that Canterbury represents. | | | Includes analysis of all tales except those of the Physician, Monk, Manciple, and Parson, but discusses the importance of the Parson's theme of penance to the work as a whole. |
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http://colfa.utsa.edu/chaucer/ec28-1.html
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| | Geoffrey Chaucer 1335 - 1400 |
| | Chaucer wove his tales about a group of fourteenth century pilgrims on their way to the shrine of the murdered archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. | | | It is thought that the Canterbury Tales was the first book to have been printed in England in 1476. | | | There are many pilgrims routes to Canterbury, and Chaucer set his tales about the way from London through Kent to the cathedral city. |
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http://www.canterbury.co.uk/cgi-bin/buildpage.pl?mysql=473
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| | Amazon.com: The Canterbury Tales, in Modern English: Books: Geoffrey Chaucer,Nevill Coghill |
| | From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. | | | The Canterbury Tales In Modern Verse by Geoffrey Chaucer | | | I remember slogging through The Canterbury Tales in Middle English when I was in high school and although the language is beautiful, having to take time to decipher it all did diminish somewhat the enjoyment of a terrific collection of stories. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140440224?v=glance
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| | Geoffrey Chaucer Main Page |
| | To wit in the Canterbury Tales we have a monk (clergy) a knight (nobility) and a miller (ordinary guy). | | | The structure of the Tales is this: a group of pilgrims are traveling to Canterbury to pay homage to St. Thomas Becket, ex-Archbishop of Canterbury, current martyr. | | | Chaucer wrote 24 tales, and the general prologue. |
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http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Hall/1170/chaucerhtml/chaucer.html
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| | Chaucer Bibliography |
| | Chaucer and the mystics: the Canterbury tales and the genre of devotional prose. | | | The Canterbury Tales: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hengwrt Manuscript with Variants from the Ellesmere. | | | Owen, Charles A. Pilgrimage and Storytelling in The Canterbury Tales. |
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http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~hanly/chaucer/coursematerials/bib.html
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| | ClassZone.com |
| | In the sampling of tales presented in Literature Connections, the Knight recounts a tale of chivalry; the Nun's Priest and the Pardoner tell cautionary tales; the Summoner tells a ribald tale; and the Wife of Bath, the Clerk, and the Franklin tell romantic tales of love and marriage. | | | The pilgrims agree and begin telling tales, each of which reflects the interests and personality of the teller. | | | Note: Some stories in The Canterbury Tales (for example, "The Summoner's Tale") contain situations and language that some readers may find objectionable. |
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http://www.classzone.com/novelguides/litcons/canter/guide.cfm
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| | Etext Center: Collections |
| | Prologue The Prologue to the Tale of Sir Thopas | | | Prologue The Knight's Interruption of the Monk's Tale | | | Introduction The Introduction to the Man of Law's Tale |
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http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/languages/english/mideng.browse.html
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| | The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer - Penguin Classics |
| | Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life—from knight to nun, miller to monk—reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth century that is as robust as it is representative. | | | With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. | | | The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer - Penguin Classics |
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http://us.penguinclassics.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,10_0140424385,00.html
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| | Virtual Museum--Canterbury Tales |
| | The Canterbury Tales, a masterpiece of English Literature, written by Geoffrey Chaucer, is a collection, with frequent dramatic links, of 24 tales told to pass the time during a spring pilgrimage to the shrine of St. | | | Clearly, the Knight is the most admired of the pilgrims, and not coincidentally, he tells his tale first. | | | According to the Norton Anthology, "the composition of none of the tales can be accurately dated; most of them were written during the last fourteen years of Chaucer's life, although a few were probably written earlier and inserted into The Canterbury Tales" (Norton, 80). |
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http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projs4a/TALES.htm
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| | Glencoe Literature: Literature Library - The Canterbury Tales |
| | In The Canterbury Tales, a band of men and women meets at an inn to begin a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas à Becket. | | | Glencoe Literature: Literature Library - The Canterbury Tales | | | The pilgrims come to life through the narrator's often caustic descriptions and through the tales they tell. |
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http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/canterbury.html
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| | 'Canterbury Tales' purchase a milestone for Pitt library |
| | While 14th-century clerics preferred Latin and bureaucrats conversed in French, the narrative poet wrote his "Canterbury Tales" in Middle English, a language used by peasants who slopped hogs. | | | Correction/Clarification: (Published April 18, 2001) A 602-year-old manuscript of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" acquired by the University of Pittsburgh contains an illustration that is probably the earliest image of the author -- not the only image, as asserted by a caption accompanying our photograph of the manuscript in Tuesday's editions. | | | Now the University of Pittsburgh has acquired a copy of that 602-year-old manuscript, which is one of the most valuable literary texts in the world. |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20010417book3.asp
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| | The Canterbury Tales |
| | The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer is one of the greatest works in English of the late fourteenth century. | | | The Canterbury Tales reflects medieval society: there are feudal, urban, ecclesiastical, and middle-class characters such as a cook, carpenter, miller, priest, monk, prioress, pardoner, lawyer, merchant, clerk, and physician. | | | He was an outstanding English poet and began to work on The Canterbury Tales in about 1387. |
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http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projf984b/CanterburyTales.html
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| | The Classic Text: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| | Caxton's first edition of The Canterbury Tales is unillustrated, however, a second edition published by him in 1484 does contain one woodcut illustration for each tale. | | | It is page 293/294 containing lines 1202-1258 of the Wyves Tale of Bath. | | | his leaf comes from one of the first books printed in Britain, William Caxton's printing of The Canterbury Tales. |
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http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg076.htm
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| | The Electronic Canterbury Tales: Online Chaucer Texts |
| | Canterbury Tales (Electronic Literature Foundation) is accessible by individual tale and available in a variety of formats: Middle English, Modern English, Facing Page, and Interpolated - Glossed (frames; from unknown base text). | | | The Canterbury Tales: Nine Tales and the General Prologue, ed. | | | For those coming to Chaucer for the first time, the Electronic Library Foundation and Librarius editions of the Canterbury Tales are (1) translated, (2) helpfully glossed (that is, the Middle English terms are defined), (3) and available in several formats. |
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http://hosting.uaa.alaska.edu/afdtk/ect_etexts.htm
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| | The Classic Text: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| | The Canterbury Tales, never completed, represents his magnum opus and the crowning achievement of his life. | | | Scholars feel The Canterbury Tales reached their instant and continued success because of their accurate and oftentimes vivid portrayal of human nature, unchanged through 600 years since Chaucer's time. | | | e began work on The Canterbury Tales about 1387, and intended for each of his thirty pilgrims to tell four tales, two while traveling to Canterbury and two while traveling from Canterbury. |
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http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg073.htm
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| | American Way Magazine - Trends for the Modern Traveler / Travel |
| | “In Canterbury, there is a place called the Canterbury Tales, which is like a little walk-through museum where you see all the different characters described. | | | Alas, this Orlando, being from Canterbury, where Geoffrey Chaucer based his famously unfinished tales, would soon take a more dramatic turn with his life. | | | Thomas Hill in Canterbury is one that was locked in my head. |
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http://americanwaymag.com/aw/travel/celebrated.asp?archive_date=5/1/2005
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| | GradeSaver: ClassicNote: The Canterbury Tales |
| | Summary and Analysis of Tale of Sir Thopas | | | Summary and Analysis of The Canon's Yeoman's Tale | | | Summary and Analysis of The Man of Law's Tale |
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http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/canterbury
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| | Racconti di Canterbury, I (1972) |
| | The Miller's Tale is much grimmer when brought to the screen than Chaucer would have intended. | | | Instead we cut back to Chaucer himself (Pasolini himself, and very handsome he is too), writing the tales at a snail's pace. | | | The storytellers appear only at the beginning and end of the tale. |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067647
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| | InfoCanterbury |
| | The Canterbury Tales is a cross section of medieval society: feudal, ecclesiastical, urban; Chaucer's interest in middle class characters, such as a cook, carpenter, miller, priest, prioress, pardoner, lawyer, merchant, clerk, physician reflects the rise of the middle class in the 14th century. | | | Literature is moving away from the questions of the genre, romance, to a more personal vision, a domestic vision. | | | Originally, he proposed 124 stories; he actually wrote 24. |
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http://jade.ccccd.edu/Andrade/BritLitI2322/InfoCanterbury.html
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| | The Canterbury Tales, Canterbury, Kent, South of England - UK |
| | The Canterbury Tales is an incredibly inventive exhibition. | | | Each Tale is told in modern English and in French. | | | The Knight, who has drawn the short straw is waiting to tell a story of rivalry in love which finishes in a very strange way. |
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http://www.group-trotter.net/uk/places/canterbur/canterbur.html
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| | Caxton's Chaucer: Comparing the Texts |
| | Drop-down lists give you the order of the tales in each edition – they are not in the same order. | | | This is because the two editions do not follow one another page by page; sometimes the order of the lines is different, sometimes the order of the tales is different and some lines only appear in one of the two editions. | | | If you want to compare the text of the two editions, you have to go to the beginning of a tale and leaf though both editions as you read through them. |
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http://prodigi.bl.uk/treasures/caxton/search.asp
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| | The Canterbury Tales |
| | The animated Canterbury Tales brings together three distinguished animation teams from Wales, England and Russia to realize three of the classic tales, with Geoffrey Chaucer himself as guide and commentator. | | | When he finishes, the Knight embarks on a tale of two suitors -- ill-fated playthings of the Gods -- in another, completely differently drawn, animation style. | | | We'd always known we wanted completely different styles for each tale. |
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http://www.awn.com/oscars99/canterbury.php3
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| | chaucer: canterbury tales |
| | Read The Canterbury Tales first in Nevill Coghill's verse translation (Hamondsworth 1951), in Vincent F. Hopper's selection (Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: An Interliner Translation, Barron's Educational Series 1970) or David Wright's prose version (Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales. | | | These aside, a very basic guide is Rob Pope's How to Study Chaucer Macmillan 2001, perhaps to be supplemented with John Spier's Chaucer the Maker Faber 1951, Muriel Bowden's A Commentary on the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales Macmillan 1959, and Derek Pearsall's The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer Blackwell 1992. | | | Few haven't heard of The Canterbury Tales, but a much more varied and accomplished Chaucer emerges from today's internet coverage. |
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http://www.poetry-portal.com/poets1.html
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| | Over the last fifteen years, Professor Mosser has examined every manuscript of the Canterbury Tales and we are fortunate to be able to present something of the results of his research on this CD-ROM. | | | This, then, leads to the second major aim of the Canterbury Tales Project: to make available to scholars all the material we gather, in as useful a form as we can manage. | | | Our first major publication, the CD-ROM of the fifty-eight pre-1500 manuscripts and early printed editions of the Wife of Bath's Prologue, is to be published within the next three months. |
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/~scriptor/chaucer/rob.html
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| | Performance: Royal Shakespeare Company: The Canterbury Tales, Part 2 Apr 19 - May 7, 2006 |
| | This staging of all the tales in two parts will be the first RSC adaptation of a Chaucer work. | | | The contest heats up as a gallant knight, a coy nun, a gangrenous cook, a bawdy miller, and other colorful characters tell tales that offer moral lessons as well as a hilarious diversion. | | | For the 2005â“2006 season, the company returns with a brand-new adaptation of the timeless classic The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer's light-hearted look at human nature. |
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http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showEvent&event=TGZTS
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| | Canterbury Tales Background |
| | You are also responsible for the editor's note, NA 310-11, on the close of the Canterbury Tales;. | | | Know what time of day is evoked at the end of the tales and the symbolism associated with that time of day. | | | Know what is meant by Chaucer's "Retraction." Be sure to read Introduction to the Parson's Tale and the Retraction both in translation (CH 339-342) and in Middle English (NA 310-13). |
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http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl512/ctbackground.html
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| | The Canterbury Tales |
| | The Canterbury Tales can be ordered from Amazon.com Books, through bookstores, or directly from the publisher. | | | That's how the poet John Dryden described The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th-century masterpiece in which pilgrims, representing a cross-section of English society, take turns telling tales as they travel together from London to a saint's shrine in Canterbury. | | | the only complete translation of Chaucer's classic in hard-copy print (includes the long-neglected "Tale of Melibee" and "The Parson's Tale") |
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http://www.hobrad.com/cthb.htm
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| | BBC America - Canterbury Tales |
| | Franc Roddam, one of the executive producers of Canterbury Tales describes why he wanted to retell Chaucer's classics in the 21st century. | | | "The diversity of characters in the tales reveal everyone's vanity and false humility and the morality of life in the 14th century. | | | Write a short story inspired by one of Chaucer's tales for a chance to win an Apple® iBook®. |
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http://www.bbcamerica.com/genre/drama_mysteries/canterbury_tales/canterbury_tales.jsp
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| | The Canterbury Tales |
| | Nevertheless, for my own part, I must confess that what has always remained with me of this film is the speech of the old man in the Pardonner's Tale to the three young thugs who approach and berate him as they roam around searching for "Traitor Death" who "stole" their friend. | | | The Canterbury Tales (I Racconti di Canterbury, 1971 Italy 109mins) | | | In between the full-frontal sex that had also characterised the Decameron there are patches of humour, of course, and the Cook's Tale – no more than a fragment in Chaucer's original – is expanded into a ten minute homage to Chaplin and American silent comedy. |
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http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/01/19/canterbury.html
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| | The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer |
| | Introduction to the The Canterbury Tales - Dr. Mary Anne Andrade | | | Introduction to The Canterbury Tales - Brother Anthony of Taizen | | | Prologue to the Tale of Sir Thopas - Dr. Anthony Colaianne |
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http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/chaubib.htm
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| | Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Canterbury Tales. |
| | The work is incomplete, and we have none of the tales told on the way home. | | | The party assembled at an inn in Southwark, called the Tabard, and there agreed to tell one tale each, both in going and returning. | | | He who told the best tale was to be treated with a supper on the homeward journey. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/81/2983.html
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| | Fractured Canterbury Tales |
| | The tale is told that when Bushkin attempted to remove his platforms they had grown into his feet! | | | Along the way, perhaps for entertainment and to make the journey seem shorter, each of the pilgrims had agreed to tell one tale each. | | | Meriweather: My tale is a burning one to be sure, my friends! |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/1071/15192
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| | Jane Zatta's Chaucer Web Site Index |
| | For example, if your assignment covers the general theme of women in the Canterbury Tales, you should have picked the specific woman or women you intend to write about and decided what specific question you plan to address. | | | You will also find links here to three different versions of the Canterbury Tales, one in Middle English with glosses, one in Middle English, and a Modern English translation. | | | In particular, Larry Benson's page provides a brief summary of each tale as well as information about sources and analogues, basic themes, and information about the relevant literary genres for each tale. |
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http://www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer/zatta/Zatta_Index.html
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| | The Canterbury Tales |
| | Filmed on location in England, Pasolini's "Canterbury Tales" brings the bawdy world of Chaucer vividly to life, complete with a rendering of hell that would have made Hieronymus Bosch proud. | | | Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for The Canterbury Tales to receive a rating. | | | Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini's sexually explicit retelling of "The Canterbury Tales" take Chaucer's famous stories into the realm of wild expressionism and beyond. |
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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/canterbury_tales
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| | Caxton's Chaucer - view the original Canterbury Tales |
| | You can find links to some web resources on Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales in our Links section and further reading in References. | | | On this site you will find William Caxton's two editions of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, probably printed in 1476 and 1483. | | | Caxton's Chaucer - view the original Canterbury Tales |
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http://www.bl.uk/treasures/caxton/homepage.html
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| | The Chaucer MetaPage Audio Files |
| | The Pardoner's Tale, the Rioters Meet the Old Man read by Alfred David of Indiana University | | | The Miller's Tale, Nicholas Seduces Alisoun read by Alfred David of Indiana University | | | The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Wedding Night read by Alan Baragona of VMI |
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http://academics.vmi.edu/english/audio/Audio_Index.html
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| | The Rap Canterbury Tales |
| | The Rap Canterbury Tales started in 1999 as an experiment, an attempt to adapt Chaucer's stories into a rap style to make them accessible. | | | The translations stay as close as possible to the tone and thrust of the original Tales, while completely updating the language into a lively hiphop rhyme style. | | | Comparing Chaucer's poetics to those of rap artists was the subject of my thesis at the time and this seemed a natural extension. |
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http://www.babasword.com/writing/rapcantales.html
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| | Canterbury Tales |
| | The remnant of the tale is long enough. | | | But of that tale I have no wish to write. | | | But it were far too long a tale to say |
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http://www.idbsu.edu/courses/hy309/docs/chaucer/knightt.html
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| | Apple - Education - The Canterbury digiTales Project |
| | After studying Chaucer& The Canterbury Tales, students in San Jose, California created their own fictional pilgrim and a corresponding "digiTale," — a digital movie based on their character — to increase their understanding of the dynamics of literary point-of-view. | | | Apple - Education - The Canterbury digiTales Project |
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http://education.apple.com/education/ilife/project_template.php?project_id=107&subject_id=2
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| | Chaucer, Canterbury Tales |
| | There's quite a bit missing from the full Canterbury Tales -- this is simply what I happened to find on the net. | | | It's about half or a little less of all the tales. | | | It's a pity that the Prolog is missing. |
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http://www.idbsu.edu/courses/hy309/docs/chaucer/chaucer.html
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