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    The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English...
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  • novelists and film-makers from the 1960s. A Canterbury Tale takes its title from the 14th-century The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer and loosely...
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  • The Canterbury Tales (Italian: I racconti di Canterbury) is a 1972 medieval erotic black comedy Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini based on...
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  • Theatre in 2003 The Canterbury Tales (attraction), a 14th-century medieval living history attraction in Canterbury, Kent Canterbury Tales, a 1797-1805 collection...
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  • The Pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer are the main characters in the framing narrative of the book. In addition, they can be considered...
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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...
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    "The Knight's Tale" (Middle English: The Knightes Tale) is the first tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. The Knight is described by Chaucer...
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  • The Canterbury Tales is a series of six single dramas that originally aired on BBC One in 2003. Each story is an adaptation of one of Geoffrey Chaucer's...
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    The General Prologue is the first part of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It introduces the frame story, in which a group of pilgrims travelling...
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    "The Knight's Tale". The Miller's Prologue is the first "quite" that occurs in the tales. The general prologue to The Canterbury Tales describes the Miller...
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    The Host (Harry Bailly or Harry Bailey) is a character who plays a key role in and throughout Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. He is the owner...
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    "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...
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  • Canterbury Tales is a musical conceived by Martin Starkie and written by Nevill Coghill and Martin Starkie with music by John Hawkins and Richard Hill...
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    The Squire is a fictional character in the framing narrative of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He is squire to (and son of) the Knight and is the...
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    known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He was the first...
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  • (The Canterbury Tales) and have included works by classic writers such as Edgar Allan Poe (The Black Cat from Masters of Horror) and Mark Twain (The Adventures...
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    Canterbury (/ˈkæntərb(ə)ri/ , /-bɛri/) is a city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the county of Kent, England; it was a county borough until 1974. It...
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    "The Pardoner's Tale" is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. In the order of the Tales, it comes after The Physician's Tale and before The...
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  • soundtrack featuring 1970s music. The film takes its name from Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, part of The Canterbury Tales, and also draws several plot points...
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    "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...
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  • Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, which is a series of connected stories (such as "The Merchant's Tale" and "The Parson's Tale"). It also alludes to the tradition...
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    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...
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  • huanne þet he is dyad. Amen. The beginning of The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories in poetry and prose written in the London dialect of Middle English...
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  • Narrative poetry (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
    with Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. So sagas include both incidental poetry and the biographies of poets. The oral tradition is the predecessor of essentially...
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  • Hyperion (Simmons novel) (category Novels set in the 28th century)
    structure to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The next book in the series was The Fall of Hyperion, published in 1990. In c. 2732, the Hegemony of...
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  • his family name, Sumner, and a character in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, the summoner. Released in 1993, it explores themes of love and morality...
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  • Canterbury Tales: The Best of Caravan is the 1976 compilation album released by Caravan. It was expanded, repackaged and released in 1994. Original release...
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    and the daughter of filmmaker Charlie Chaplin and his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill. She had a featured role in Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Canterbury Tales (1972)...
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    [death] make, with a bare bodkin?" Chaucer used the word "boidekin" in this sense in The Canterbury Tales ("But if he wolde be slain of Simkin, with panade...
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  • 2009; the most famous of these is The Canterbury Tales: Knight's Tale. While working at Studio AKA, he was hired to be an assistant art director on The Big...
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