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  2. List of The Canterbury Tales characters - Wikipedia

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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 as characters of the framing narrative the Host, who travels with the pilgrims, the Canon, and the fictive Geoffrey Chaucer, the teller of the tale of Sir Thopas (who might be considered distinct from the Chaucerian narrator, who is in turn ...

  3. Order of The Canterbury Tales - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. The Canterbury Tales - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. The Monk's Tale - Wikipedia

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    The Monk's Tale. " The Monk's Tale " is one of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The Monk's tale to the other pilgrims is a collection of 17 short stories, exempla, on the theme of tragedy. The tragic endings of these historical figures are recounted: Lucifer, Adam, Samson, Hercules, Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, Zenobia, Pedro of Castile ...

  6. General Prologue - Wikipedia

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    The frame story of the poem, as set out in the 858 lines of Middle English which make up the General Prologue, is of a religious pilgrimage. The narrator, Geoffrey Chaucer, is in The Tabard Inn in Southwark, where he meets a group of 'sundry folk' who are all on the way to Canterbury, the site of the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket, a martyr reputed to have the power of healing the sinful.

  7. The Miller's Tale - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. The Nun's Priest's Tale - Wikipedia

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    Chanticleer and the Fox in a mediaeval manuscript miniature. " The Nun's Priest's Tale " (Middle English: The Nonnes Preestes Tale of the Cok and Hen, Chauntecleer and Pertelote[1]) is one of The Canterbury Tales by the Middle English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Composed in the 1390s, it is a beast fable and mock epic based on an incident in the ...

  9. The Canterbury Pilgrims (Dyson) - Wikipedia

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    The Canterbury Pilgrims. (Dyson) The Canterbury Pilgrims is a 1931 oratorio by George Dyson. It is one of the composer's best known large scale works. [1]

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