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The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories, mostly in verse, written by Geoffrey Chaucer chiefly from 1387 to 1400. They are held together in a frame story of a pilgrimage on which each member of the group is to tell two tales on the way to Canterbury, and two on the way back. Fewer than a quarter of the projected tales were completed ...
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories built around a frame tale, a common and already long established genre in this period. Chaucer's Tales differs from most other story "collections" in this genre chiefly in its intense variation. Most story collections focused on a theme, usually a religious one.
The Wife of Bath's Tale in the Ellesmere manuscript of The Canterbury Tales, c. 1405 –1410. " The Wife of Bath's Tale " ( Middle English: The Tale of the Wyf of Bathe) is among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer 's Canterbury Tales. It provides insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and was probably of interest to Chaucer ...
The Parson's Tale. " The Parson's Tale " seems, from the evidence of its prologue, to have been intended as the final tale of Geoffrey Chaucer 's poetic cycle The Canterbury Tales. The "tale", which is the longest of all the surviving contributions by Chaucer's pilgrims, is in fact neither a story nor a poem, but a long and unrelieved prose ...
The Franklin's Tale. Dorigen and Aurelius, from Mrs. Haweis 's, Chaucer for Children (1877). Note the black rocks in the sea and the setting of the garden, a typical site for courtly love. " The Franklin's Tale " ( Middle English: The Frankeleyns Tale) is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It focuses on issues of providence, truth ...
The Friar from the Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer ’s The Canterbury Tales. " The Friar's Tale " ( Middle English: The Freres Tale) is a story in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, told by Huberd the Friar. The story centers on a corrupt summoner and his interactions with the Devil. It is preceded by The Wife of Bath's Tale and ...
Three priests in the prioress's party. Monk. The Monk's Tale. An avid hunter and horseman who disdains the rules of his order. Friar. Huberd. The Friar's Tale. A mendicant who takes confessions from the well-to-do for a price, and spends the money on himself rather than to benefit the poor. Merchant.
The Miller's Tale. " The Miller's Tale " ( Middle English: The Milleres Tale) is the second of Geoffrey Chaucer 's Canterbury Tales (1380s–1390s), told by the drunken miller Robin to "quite" (a Middle English term meaning requite or pay back, in both good and negative ways) "The Knight's Tale". The Miller's Prologue is the first "quite" that ...