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... 16 KB (1,502 words) - 22:43, 8 March 2024 |
The Miller's Tale (redirect from The Miller’s Prologue and Tale) 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... 17 KB (2,280 words) - 09:19, 3 April 2024 |
The Pardoner's Tale (redirect from The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale) positive after the physician's depressing tale. The Pardoner initiates his Prologue—briefly accounting his methods of swindling people—and then proceeds to... 21 KB (2,978 words) - 08:57, 23 April 2024 |
The Wife of Bath's Tale (redirect from The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale) 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... 33 KB (4,760 words) - 18:08, 6 March 2024 |
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... 60 KB (7,670 words) - 21:33, 8 March 2024 |
The Prioress's Tale (redirect from The Prioress's Prologue and Tale) 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... 9 KB (1,229 words) - 15:00, 2 March 2024 |
The Parson's Tale (redirect from The Parson’s Prologue and 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... 8 KB (1,013 words) - 15:49, 2 March 2024 |
The Knight's Tale (redirect from The Knight's Prologue and Tale) 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... 14 KB (1,846 words) - 17:05, 6 April 2024 |
Yeoman (section General Prologue: The Yeoman) 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... 114 KB (12,113 words) - 01:24, 30 March 2024 |
The Monk's Tale (redirect from The Monk's Prologue) 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... 7 KB (821 words) - 17:59, 7 April 2024 |
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... 10 KB (976 words) - 06:24, 3 May 2024 |
The Merchant's Tale (redirect from The Merchant's Prologue Tale) The Riverside Chaucer: 600 Innes, Sheila, ed. (2007). "The Merchant's Prologue and Tale". Cambridge Chaucer. Cambridge University Press. These and other... 12 KB (1,626 words) - 10:09, 10 April 2024 |
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... 2 KB (290 words) - 21:51, 9 March 2024 |
The Clerk's Tale (redirect from The Clerk's Prologue) 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... 5 KB (671 words) - 15:23, 2 March 2024 |
The Canon's Yeoman's Tale (redirect from The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue) 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... 7 KB (942 words) - 20:29, 2 March 2024 |
Modern) English for his Acts and Monuments collection. The so-called General Prologue of the Wycliffe Bible found on some later version (LV) manuscripts... 10 KB (1,190 words) - 17:07, 30 March 2024 |
The Second Nun's Tale (redirect from The Second Nun's Prologue) 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... 20 KB (3,037 words) - 15:01, 2 March 2024 |
A Commentary on the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales is a 1948 doctoral dissertation by Muriel Bowden that examines historical backgrounds to characters... 3 KB (311 words) - 15:36, 12 October 2022 |
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... 63 KB (5,399 words) - 00:53, 11 May 2024 |
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... 9 KB (816 words) - 03:18, 16 June 2022 |
The Reeve's Tale (redirect from The Reeve's Prologue) original text related to this article: The Reeve's Prologue and Tale (Chaucer) "The Reeve's Prologue and Tale", middle-english hypertext with glossary... 13 KB (2,098 words) - 20:05, 2 March 2024 |
The Squire's Tale (redirect from The Squire's Prologue) 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... 6 KB (817 words) - 22:05, 4 March 2024 |
The Summoner's Tale (redirect from The Summoner's Prologue) gaseous release from his bowels." The bawdy story the Summoner tells in his prologue seems to be an inversion of a story in Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus... 10 KB (1,472 words) - 22:06, 25 April 2024 |
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... 20 KB (138 words) - 10:28, 18 November 2023 |
The Nun's Priest's Tale (redirect from Nuns Priests Prologue and Tale) 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... 10 KB (1,166 words) - 09:16, 9 May 2024 |