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  2. 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.

  3. The Canterbury Tales - Wikipedia

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    The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) [2] is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. [3] It is widely regarded as Chaucer's magnum opus.

  4. A Commentary on the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales

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    Bryant, Margaret (December 1949). "New Books: Chaucer's Pilgrims". College English. 11 (3). National Council of Teachers of English: 169. doi:10.2307/585986. JSTOR 585986. (subscription required) Galway, Margaret (October 1950). "Book Reviews: A Commentary on the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales". The Review of English Studies. 1 (4 ...

  5. The Knight's Tale - Wikipedia

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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 in the " General Prologue " as the person of highest social standing amongst the pilgrims, though his manners and clothes are unpretentious.

  6. The Wife of Bath's Tale - Wikipedia

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    Pasolini adapted the prologue of this tale in his film The Canterbury Tales. [35] Laura Betti plays the wife of Bath and Tom Baker plays her fifth husband. Zadie Smith adapted and updated the prologue and story for the Kiln Theatre in Kilburn in 2019 as The Wife of Willesden, a play which ran from November 2021 to January 2022. [35]

  7. The Miller's Tale - Wikipedia

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    "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 occurs in the tales.

  8. The Prioress's Tale - Wikipedia

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    "The Prioress's Prologue and Tale", middle-english hypertext with glossary and side-by-side middle-english and modern english; Read "The Prioress' Tale" with interlinear translation Archived 29 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine; Modern Translation of the Prioress' Tale and Other Resources at eChaucer

  9. Geoffrey Chaucer - Wikipedia

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    Geoffrey Chaucer (/ ˈ tʃ ɔː s ər / CHAW-sər; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. [1] He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". [2]

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