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| | The Manciple's Prologue and Tale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In the tale's prologue, the Host tries to rouse the drunken Cook to tell a tale, but he is too intoxicated. | | | It appears in its own manuscript fragment, Group H, but the prologue to the Parson's Tale makes it clear it is the penultimate story in the collection. | | | The Manciple, a purchasing agent for a law court, tells a fable about Phoebus Apollo and his pet crow, which is both an etiological myth explaining the crow's black feathers, and a moralistic injunction against gossip. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manciple's_Prologue_and_Tale
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| | Index to texts and subjects on the Geoffrey Chaucer Page |
| | The Tale of Beryn, Prologue; fifteenth-century imitation of the <b>Generalb> Prologue. | | | The Reeve's Prologue and Tale (an interlinear translation). | | | The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale The Road to Canterbury (map of "Canterbury Weye"). |
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http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/titles.htm
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| | <b>Generalb> Prologue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The <b>Generalb> Prologue is the assumed title of the series of portraits that precedes The Canterbury Tales. | | | The first lines from the <b>Generalb> Prologue in the opening folio of the Hengwrt manuscript. | | | Some of the people in the prologue have descriptions but no tale assigned to them whereas characters such as the second nun are not described. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Prologue
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| | English 301 Spring 2000 |
| | 3-6; and "<b>Generalb> Prologue" to the Canterbury Tales, 1-42. | | | Bowden, Muriel, A Commentary on the <b>Generalb> Prologue. | | | "Prologue" and "Tale of Sir Thopas," with a cursory glance at the "Tale of Melibee"; read E. Donaldson, "Chaucer the Pilgrim," in Schoeck and Taylor, vol. |
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http://www.oberlin.edu/english/syllabi/spring00/rl301s00.html
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| | Geoffrey Chaucer: <b>Generalb> Introduction |
| | Longer introductions to certain Tales: The <b>Generalb> Prologue; The Miller's Tale; The Nun's Priest's Tale; The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale; The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. | | | After the <b>Generalb> Prologue, the pilgrims come into their own in brief link-passages which are in many cases full of tension as two or more of the rowdier pilgrims nearly come to blows. | | | The Reeve's Prologue and Tale: a fabliau about the cuckolding of a miller told by the Reeve (who is a carpenter, and very angry with the Miller for his tale); two Cambridge students punish a dishonest miller by having sex with his wife and daughter while asleep all in one room. |
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http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~anthony/Chaucer
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| | <b>Generalb> Notes on Chaucer and the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales | | | Also one might think about some of the problems raised by the characters in the <b>Generalb> Prologue; it is a collection of nonpareils, each a master of his or her trade, but it is also a great gathering of scoundrels. | | | It is the <b>Generalb> Prologue that serves to establish firmly the framework for the entire story-collection: the pilgrimage that risks being turned into a tale-telling competition. |
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http://www.litnotes.co.uk/prologue2.htm
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| | Chaucer: The <b>Generalb> Prologue |
| | First, by the end of the <b>Generalb> Prologue we have become well acquainted with the seven cardinal virtues (prudence, fortitude, temperance, justice, faith, hope, and charity) and the seven cardinal sins (pride, envy, covetousness, sloth, anger, lust, and gluttony). | | | Introduction to "The <b>Generalb> Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales | | | In addressing "The <b>Generalb> Prologue to The Canterbury Tales" we are dealing with what has long been recognized as one of the greatest masterpieces of English literature, certainly the finest and most influential work of fiction to emerge in England from that period we call the Middle Ages. |
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http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/Eng200/chaucer.htm
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| | SparkNotes: The Canterbury Tales: Plot Overview |
| | <b>Generalb> Prologue: The Knight through the Man of Law | | | In the Prologue to his tale, the Man of Law laments the miseries of poverty. | | | In her Prologue, the Second Nun explains that she will tell a saint’s life, that of Saint Cecilia, for this saint set an excellent example through her good works and wise teachings. |
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http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/canterbury/summary.html
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| | Wyf of Bathe - Anticlimax of the Tale |
| | to the whole of the Prologue, whether because of the forcefulness with which the Wife presents her arguments against the antifeminists (eg. | | | However, on closer scrutiny, the Tale bears traces of the energy and even raciness that the Wife infuses her Prologue with. | | | The Wife, as speaker of her Prologue, has an earthy, homely vigour that pervades the whole of the Prologue; as such, it would certainly be fitting to apply the epithet "robust" to the Prologue. |
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http://web.singnet.com.sg/~yisheng/notes/chaucer/antimax.htm
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| | Old and Middle English tapes |
| | Beginning of <b>Generalb> Prologue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 6. | | | Side 1: The <b>Generalb> Prologue, through the Wife of Bath Side 2: <b>Generalb> Prologue, Parson to the conclusion; Prologue to the Parson's Tale; Chaucer's retraction A07.16 Two Canterbury Tales--Chaucer, read in Middle English by J. Bessinger, Jr. | | | Beginning of Prologue of A-text of Piers Ploughman 5. |
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http://languagelab.bh.indiana.edu/audio/a07.html
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| | The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages: Topic 1: Overview |
| | The conflict between the old and the new, between tradition and ambition is evident not only in the <b>Generalb> Prologue but throughout The Canterbury Tales in the individual pilgrims' prologues and tales. | | | That work, as well as Gower's Mirour de l'Omme, illustrates the late-medieval genre of estates satire to which the <b>Generalb> Prologue to the Canterbury Tales is, in some respects, related. | | | What is interesting about Chaucer& Prologue is not that it portrays an archaic and closed social order but that it reveals that order in the process of breaking down. |
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http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/middleages/topic_1/welcome.htm
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| | Chaucer introduced in the <b>Generalb> Prologue and in some of the tales a side of medieval culture now unfamiliar, the carnival world of medieval popular life, which the Soviet scholar Mikhail Bakhtin discerned as the true context of Rabelais. | | | The Miller, the first of the "churls" introduced at the end of the <b>Generalb> Prologue, is a generic image of carnival man, with gaping mouth and prominent nose. | | | Carnival imagery is first placed before us in the <b>Generalb> Prologue to prepare us for what follows in the tales. |
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http://lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/carnival.html
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| | The Electronic Canterbury Tales: <b>Generalb> Prologue |
| | A Reader-Friendly Edition of the <b>Generalb> Prologue by Michael Murphy (CUNY-Brooklyn), each tale featuring a handsome introduction. | | | Prologue to the Siege of Thebes, which is modeled upon the <b>Generalb> Prologue. | | | Sample audio files (.wav,.au,.aiff) from the <b>Generalb> Prologue, recorded at Brigham Young University in 1990, are available from the Chaucer Studio (Paul Thomas, Brigham Young). |
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http://hosting.uaa.alaska.edu/afdtk/ect_genprol.htm
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| | Chaucer and Religion |
| | There are quite a number of Tales, and the <b>Generalb> Prologue itself is perhaps one of them, that are purely secular pictures of the 'way of the world.' The cunning, thieves and liars, seem to win out over their unsuspecting, or stupid victims, they even boast of it, and there is no certain justice. | | | We all agree, I suppose, that the Canterbury Tales begins with the <b>Generalb> Prologue and ends with the Parson's Tale and Chaucer's Retraction. | | | With the notable exceptions of the Clerk and the Parson, all the Church-people have lives that seem to be more or less far removed from what might be expected in people of their calling; the Clerk is intensely serious at his studies, the Parson is said to be living in true Gospel style. |
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http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~anthony/Religion.htm
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| | <b>Generalb> Prologue |
| | The portraits of the characters in the <b>Generalb> Prologue provide a commentary on how the characters fail to live up to who they are, and how they are supposed to live. | | | These topics directly relate to the characters of the <b>Generalb> Prologue since the pilgrims provide a cross section of medieval society and represent the "three estates" as they were in Chaucer's time. | | | The <b>Generalb> Prologue to the Canterbury Tales is the narrative frame that explains how these tales came to be told. |
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http://www.geocities.com/readmore2002/readmore2002/general.htm
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| | Chaucerís Friar: |
| | Chaucer& "<b>Generalb> Prologue" introduces us to a cast of clergy, or "Second Estate" folk, who range in nature from pious to corrupt. | | | 	Chaucer& "<b>Generalb> Prologue" is remarkable in that it allows us to see not only what characters may claim to represent, but also how they really are inside. | | | The Friar seems to be an excellent example of the corrupt nature of many low-level clergymen of the times- while his activities were not heretical or heinous, his behavior is certainly not in accord with the selfless moral teachings he is supposed to espouse. |
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jimknapp/papers/Canterbury.html
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| | The Electronic Canterbury Tales: Online Chaucer Texts |
| | The Canterbury Tales: Nine Tales and the <b>Generalb> Prologue, ed. | | | This edition includes the <b>Generalb> Prologue and the tales of the Knight, Miller, Reeve, Cook, Wife of Bath, Clerk, Merchant, Franklin, Pardoner, Prioress, and Nun's Priest. | | | If you're interested in reading through a concentrated, thematically rich segment of the Canterbury Tales, you can't do better than the First Fragment (the <b>Generalb> Prologue, the Knight's Tale, The Miller's Tale, the Reeve's Tale, and the Cook's Tale). |
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http://afdtk.uaa.alaska.edu/ect_etexts.htm
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| | UCSB Department of English |
| | CT Prologue and Tale of Sir Thopas, Tale of Melibee excerpt ll. | | | CT Clerk's Prologue and Tale parts I-III ll. | | | CT Manciple's Prologue and Tale and Parson's Prologue ll. |
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http://www.english.ucsb.edu/courses/dept_schedule.asp?CourseID=168
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| | Beginner's Chaucer |
| | In the <b>Generalb> Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, we see the Merchant as an aloof anonymous figure, who sits upright on his horse, talking of nothing but his profits, and re-investing to such an extent that he has cash-flow problems. | | | The Merchant's Tale is one of a group of four in the Canterbury Tales that concern marriage, which includes the Tales of the Wife of Bath, the Clerk, the Merchant, and the Franklin. | | | The Merchant's Tale is about a young wife who deceives her elderly husband, and the Franklin's Tale concludes that both husband and wife must be equal partners for true happiness in marriage to exist. |
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http://www.cappella.demon.co.uk/litfiles/merchant.html
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| | LIT 2001: Characters in Chaucer's The <b>Generalb> Prologue |
| | The Knight is one of three idealized characters in The <b>Generalb> Prologue (the other two being the Parson and the Plowman). | | | The Parson is one of three idealized characters in The <b>Generalb> Prologue (the other two being the Knight and the Plowman). | | | LIT 2001: Characters in Chaucer's The <b>Generalb> Prologue of the CT |
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http://www.ivcc.edu/rambo/lit2001_handout_CT_characters.htm
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| | Syllabus |
| | : Miller's Prologue and Tale; Reeve's Prologue and Tale; Cook's Prologue and Tale. | | | : Friar's Prologue and Tale; Summoner's Prologue and Tale. | | | : Manciple's Prologue and Tale; Parson's Prologue and Tale [75-204; skim "the seven sins," 950- 2720; 3078-3146]; Chaucer's "Retraction." |
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http://www.yu.edu/faculty/haahr/2315/syllabus.htm
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