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...

ways) "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...

positive after the physician's depressing tale. The Pardoner initiates his Prologue—briefly accounting his methods of swindling people—and then proceeds to...

at the end of Chaucer's life. In the General Prologue, some 30 pilgrims are introduced. According to the Prologue, Chaucer's intention was to write four...

ones, with her Prologue twice as long as her Tale. He also goes so far as to describe two sets of clothing for her in his General Prologue. She holds her...

second in group B2, followed by Chaucer's "Tale of Sir Topas". The General Prologue names the prioress as Madame Eglantine, and describes her impeccable...

"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...

Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. The Knight is described by Chaucer in the "General Prologue" as the person of highest social standing amongst the pilgrims, though...

yeoman in the late 14th century when the work was written. In the General Prologue, Chaucer describes The Yeoman as being the only servant The Knight...

motivation for interrupting than sheer boredom. In line 51 of the General Prologue, it is said of the Knight that: "At Alisaundre he was, whan it was...

The Riverside Chaucer: 600 Innes, Sheila, ed. (2007). "The Merchant's Prologue and Tale". Cambridge Chaucer. Cambridge University Press. These and other...

expressions in English speaking countries. The phrase is referenced in the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales: "Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote...

The Honda Prologue is a battery electric mid-size crossover SUV jointly developed by Honda and General Motors that is marketed in North America. Announced...

Look up prologue in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A prologue is a prefatory piece of writing. Prologue may also refer to: A prologue time trial, a...

Clerk of Oxford, who is a scholar of logic and philosophy. In the General Prologue, he is described as thin and impoverished, hard-working and wholly...

scriptures into Cornish.: 86  Ten LV manuscripts begin with a so-called General Prologue (GP, also known as Four and Twenty Books) written by "Simple Creature"...

Modern) English for his Acts and Monuments collection. The so-called General Prologue of the Wycliffe Bible found on some later version (LV) manuscripts...

Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canon and his Yeoman are not mentioned in the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, where most of the other pilgrims are described...

A Commentary on the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales is a 1948 doctoral dissertation by Muriel Bowden that examines historical backgrounds to characters...

Wycliffe's Bible, (1384): The following is the very beginning of the General Prologue from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The text was written...

scholars. The table below enumerates all the pilgrims mentioned in the General Prologue, plus two that materialise later in the tales, and the stories they...

Cecilia. The lack of portrait description for the second nun in the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales has led some scholars to speculate that the...

original text related to this article: The Reeve's Prologue and Tale (Chaucer) "The Reeve's Prologue and Tale", middle-english hypertext with glossary...

original text related to this article: The Cook's Prologue and Tale (Chaucer) "The Cook's Prologue and Tale", middle-english hypertext with glossary and...

Man of Law's Tale. The Squire is the second pilgrim described in the General Prologue. His tale is told eleventh, after the Merchant and before the Franklin...

by the next story-teller, the Franklin, who then continues with his own prologue and tale. The Squire is the Knight's son, a novice warrior and lover with...

Yeoman Oxford English Dictionary Eckhardt, Caroline (1990). Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales: An Annotated Bibliography, 1900 to 1982. University...

most publications modernise his idiom. The following is a sample from the prologue of The Summoner's Tale that compares Chaucer's text to a modern translation:...

quid iuris I ask what law? from the Summoner's section of Chaucer's General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, line 648 qui audet adipiscitur Who Dares Wins...

There is no substantial depiction of this character in Chaucer's "General Prologue", but in the tale's epilogue the Host is moved to give a highly approving...