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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. | | | Read "The Manciple's Prologue and Tale" with interlinear translation | | | 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. |
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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 General Prologue. | | | The Reeve's Prologue and Tale (an interlinear translation). | | | The Miller's Prologue and Tale (an interlinear translation). |
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http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/titles.htm
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| | General Prologue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The General Prologue is the assumed title of the series of portraits that precedes The Canterbury Tales. | | | The first lines from the General 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 "General Prologue" to the Canterbury Tales, 1-42. | | | Bowden, Muriel, A Commentary on the General 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: General Introduction |
| | Longer introductions to certain Tales: The General 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. | | | 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. | | | The Parson's Prologue and Tale: clearly designed to be the last tale in the collection, this is no "tale" but a long moral treatise translated from two Latin works on Penitence and on the Seven Deadly Sins. |
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http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~anthony/Chaucer
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| | General 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 General Prologue; it is a collection of nonpareils, each a master of his or her trade, but it is also a great gathering of scoundrels. | | | The anonymous Prologue to the Tale of Beryn likewise deals with the pilgrims once they have arrived at Canterbury and narrates the Pardoner’s unsuccessful courtship of the barmaid. |
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http://www.litnotes.co.uk/prologue2.htm
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| | Chaucer: The General Prologue |
| | First, by the end of the General 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 General Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales | | | In addressing "The General 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 |
| | 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. | | | General Prologue: The Knight through the Man of Law |
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http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/canterbury/summary.html
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| | Old and Middle English tapes |
| | Beginning of General Prologue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 6. | | | Beginning of Prologue of A-text of Piers Ploughman 5. | | | Side 1: The General Prologue, through the Wife of Bath Side 2: General 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. |
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http://languagelab.bh.indiana.edu/audio/a07.html
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| | Wyf of Bathe - Anticlimax of the Tale |
| | In contrast, the Tale (or the Wife as speaker of the Tale) is arguably lacking in a similiar robust vitality. | | | 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. |
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http://web.singnet.com.sg/~yisheng/notes/chaucer/antimax.htm
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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 General 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 General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales is, in some respects, related. | | | Mutual hatred of the lower and higher estates is seen in the bloody English Uprising of 1381, which is represented here by a series of rebel manifestos preserved in chronicles and an allegorical diatribe against the rebels in the Vox Clamantis of the poet John Gower. |
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http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/middleages/topic_1/welcome.htm
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| | Untitled Document |
| | Chaucer introduced in the General 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 General Prologue, is a generic image of carnival man, with gaping mouth and prominent nose. | | | Carnival imagery is first placed before us in the General 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: General Prologue |
| | Prologue to the Tale of Beryn (a fifteenth century imitation) | | | John Lydgate, a fifteenth century follower of Chaucer, imagined his Siege of Thebes to be an extension of the Canterbury Tales, the first tale on the trip home from Canterbury. | | | A Reader-Friendly Edition of the General Prologue by Michael Murphy (CUNY-Brooklyn), each tale featuring a handsome introduction. |
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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 General 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. | | | 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. | | | We all agree, I suppose, that the Canterbury Tales begins with the General Prologue and ends with the Parson's Tale and Chaucer's Retraction. |
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http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~anthony/Religion.htm
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| | General Prologue |
| | The portraits of the characters in the General 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 General Prologue since the pilgrims provide a cross section of medieval society and represent the "three estates" as they were in Chaucer's time. | | | The General 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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| | Scotsman.com News - Sci-Tech - From tail to tale on the path of pilgrims in life |
| | The Flounder’s Tale, told at Rendezvous 20, is an example of one of the shortest of the tales. | | | And, as with Chaucer’s tales, they are not necessarily about the teller but they carry a message about life, or evolution, in general. | | | Incidentally, I decided it would be twee to let them tell their tales in the first person singular. |
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http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=374772005
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| | Chaucerís Friar: |
| | 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. | | | Chaucer& "General Prologue" introduces us to a cast of clergy, or "Second Estate" folk, who range in nature from pious to corrupt. | | | Clearly a man who is supposed to have taken a vow of poverty, the corrupt Friar uses his position to satisfy his own greed. |
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jimknapp/papers/Canterbury.html
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| | UCSB Department of English |
| | CT Manciple's Prologue and Tale and Parson's Prologue ll. | | | CT Prologue and Tale of Sir Thopas, Tale of Melibee excerpt ll. | | | CT Clerk's Prologue and Tale parts I-III ll. |
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http://www.english.ucsb.edu/courses/dept_schedule.asp?CourseID=168
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| | The Electronic Canterbury Tales: Online Chaucer Texts |
| | The Canterbury Tales: Nine Tales and the General Prologue, ed. | | | This edition includes the General 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 General 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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| | Beginner's Chaucer |
| | In the General 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 General Prologue |
| | The Knight is one of three idealized characters in The General Prologue (the other two being the Parson and the Plowman). | | | The Parson is one of three idealized characters in The General Prologue (the other two being the Knight and the Plowman). | | | LIT 2001: Characters in Chaucer's The General 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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| | Parson's Prologue (1-74); 1st and last paragraphs of Parson's Tale; Chaucer's Retraction, p. | | | Reeve's Prologue and Tale; Cook's Prologue and Tale; What is a fragment anyway? | | | Intro to Pardoner&; Pardoner& Prologue and Tale; C.David Benson, “Chaucer& Pardoner: His Sexuality and Modern Critics” |
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http://www.haverford.edu/engl/chaucer/chausyll.htm
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| | In the General Prologue, distinctive medieval touches in the description of the Physician have to do with his use of: (a) knowledge of ancient Egyptian medicine (b) surgical instruments (c) astrology and gold (d) saints' holy relics | | | One distinctive medieval aspect of the "array" of most of the men, as described in the General Prologue, is their: (a) knives or daggers (b) bellbottom trousers (c) coarse knit shirts (d) three-cornered caps (e) tippets | | | In the General Prologue, where the Reeve rides, in relation to the other Canterbury Pilgrims, suggests his: (a) suspiciousness (b) forwardness (c) sociability (d) competitiveness |
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http://www.aug.edu/~nprinsky/Humn2001/CHA-GPTT.htm
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| | The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages: Topic 1: Explorations |
| | In the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (NAEL 1.215–35), Chaucer& narrator sets out to describe the "condicioun," "degree," and "estaat" of each of the pilgrims and apologizes for failing to list them in their correct social order. | | | The texts in this section were originally written in English, French, Latin, and Catalan; John Gower himself wrote in three of these languages. | | | Try expressing these responses in an imitation (in modern English) of a chapter in the Showings or in The Book of Margery Kempe. |
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http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/middleages/topic_1/explorations.htm
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| | Chaucer--Manciple |
| | Characters: The "Prologue" involves the drunken pilgrim Cook, the Host, the Manciple; the tale tells of the Crow (formerly white and melodious), Phebus (Sun God, but here not too bright), Phebus' wife and her lover. | | | The Host notices the Cook's drunkenness has led him to sleep on his horse at the back of the line, and he notes that thieves may attack him there, much like the straggling impala being picked off by the lions on the Serengeti Plain. | | | The Cook grows so sleepy that he's almost falling off his horse, and the Manciple offers a rather specific criticism of his physical appearance, smell, etc. The now-angry Cook finally does fall off his horse, "For lakke of speche," and all the male pilgrims help hoist him back into the saddle. |
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http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng330/chaucermanciple.htm
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| | John Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes: Introduction |
| | Indeed, Lydgate drew material directly from his master in ten specific passages, intent on making the two histories dovetail with one another, using narrative congruence and verbal echoes to knit up the end of his tale with the beginning of Chaucer's (Bowers 1985, 45-49). | | | The Prologue, printed here, offers even greater interest because it attempts to revive and extend the frame-narrative of The Canterbury Tales left vexingly incomplete by Chaucer. | | | The work's chief interest has been its relationship to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, whose decasyllabic or "heroic" couplets were adapted by Lydgate with mixed success. |
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http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/lydgtint.htm
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| | Island of Freedom - Geoffrey Chaucer |
| | In the Prologue to The Legend of Good Women (1386?), another dream vision, the god of love accuses Chaucer of heresy for writing of Criseyde's unfaithfulness and assigns him the penance of writing the lives of Cupid's martyrs—faithful women who died for love. | | | The poet joins a band of pilgrims, vividly described in the General Prologue, who assemble at the Tabard Inn outside London for the journey to Canterbury. | | | Ranging in status from a Knight to a humble Plowman, they are a microcosm of 14th-century English society. |
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http://www.island-of-freedom.com/CHAUCER.HTM
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| | GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Geoffrey Chaucer |
| | Chaucer introduces each of these pilgrims in vivid brief sketches in the General Prologue and intersperses the twenty-four tales with short dramatic scenes with lively exchanges. | | | Chaucer did not complete the full plan for the tales, and surviving manuscripts leave some doubt as to the exact order of the tales that remain. | | | It is his great literary accomplishment, a compendium of stories by pilgrims traveling to the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury. |
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http://www.classicnote.com/ClassicNotes/Authors/about_geoffrey_chaucer.html
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| | Chaucer / Mr. Longsworth |
| | 12 Nov. "Prologue" and "Tale of Sir Thopas" (with a cursory glance at the "Tale of Melibee"); E.T. Donaldson, "Chaucer the Pilgrim," in Schoeck and Taylor* | | | 10 Nov. "Prioress's Prologue" and "Tale"; Judith Ferster, "'Your Praise Is Performed by Men and Children': Language and Gender in the Prioress's Prologue and Tale," in Exemplaria 2: 149-168 | | | 29 Sept. "Prologue" and "Reeve's Tale"; also "Prologue" and "Cook's Tale"; suggested background reading: V.A. Kolve, Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative,* ch. |
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http://www.oberlin.edu/english/syllabi/fall97/301longsworth-f97.html
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| | CHAUCER AND TRADITION |
| | HW Assignment: Read The "General Prologue" to the Canterbury Tales. | | | Discussion of "The General Prologue," of favorite pilgrims and of the major themes enunciated in "The General Prologue." Review assigned passages (collect translations). | | | HW: Read "The Prologue to the Wife of Bath’s Tale" |
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http://www.wfu.edu/academics/english/faculty_data/sigal/eng315_syllabus.htm
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| | Chaucer's Prioress - from Gloriana's Court |
| | For the Prioress to devote the rest of her prologue to sentimental praises of the Queen of Heaven is understandable... | | | The Prioress's prologue and tale contain strong elements of anti-Semitism. | | | Indeed, her tale of Little Hugh of Lincoln is hardly original, as I shall show in the following section. |
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http://www.gloriana.nu/prioress.html
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| | ENGL 324: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer |
| | Chaucer's "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales": An Annotated Bibliography, 1900-1982. | | | Chaucer's "Pardoner's Prologue and Tale": An Annotated Bibliography, 1900 to 1995. | | | This collection, the first to appear in over half a century, features such additions as a fresh interpretation of Chaucer's sources for the frame of the work, chapters on the sources of the General Prologue and Retractions, and modern English translations of all foreign language texts. |
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http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Esreimer/engl324/324-bib.htm
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| | First, in the general allegorical scheme the Black Knight is identified as John of Gaunt and the deceased lady "goode faire white" (948) as Duchess Blanche. | | | Fourth, the traditional death-date of Chaucer as well as the dates for the final versions of the Canterbury Tales should be in the early 1400s--there seem to be too many allusions to Henry IV in the General Prologue and in the Knight's Tale. | | | In 1915, G. Kittredge, while saying that Chaucer portrays John of Gaunt as the bereaved knight and the stupefied dreamer as full of childlike wonder, suggested that the dream in the poem is in many details near to the phenomena of actual dream life. |
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http://www.nd.edu/%7Ezthundy/BD.html
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| | Character Analysis - The Squire |
| | n the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, the narrator, Geoffrey Chaucer, meets twenty nine pilgrims at the Southwark at the Tabard Inn. | | | They are all going to Canterbury Cathedral to visit the shrine of Sir Thomas Becket. |
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http://www.wol.pace.edu/grendel/projs4a/squir1.html
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| | 15ch8 |
| | They cite as evidence apparent ecclesiastical censorship in such items as the omission of the end of the Pardoner's Tale to avoid the vulgar quarrel, the omission of the Shipman's Tale and its link, and the depiction in the Reeve's Tale of the wife as the daughter of a swanherd rather than of a parson. | | | Scribe II reenters at this point to add a single leaf concluding the Miller's Tale and presenting the prologue to the Reeve's Tale (see illustrations 3-5), but he ends this brief stint on f. | | | 10 Curiously, though, as Charles A. Owen notes, passages in the General Prologue and in the Canon Yeoman's Tale one would presume to be equally offensive to such ecclesiastics have not been edited |
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http://www.luc.edu/publications/medieval/vol15/15ch8.html
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| | Frederic Colier, "What Amounteth Al This Wit?" [On Chaucer's Reeve's Tale] |
| | The Reeve is depicted as human being whose physical aspect abandons him and whose declining intellectual faculty reflects the sourness of a man who is witnessing his own decrepitude. | | | The Reeve has dedicated his life to thievery. | | | Accordingly why not indulge into some sinful deeds? |
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http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/mel/colier.html
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http://art-bin.com/art/origo.html
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