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The Old Man in "The Pardoner's Tale" is often written off as one who does not provide any sort of substance to the play. However, critic Alfred David denies such claims and asserts the possibility that the Old Man in "The Pardoner's Tale" is meant to symbolise more than unambiguous death, "the old man's identity does not admit a simple ...
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Al Pacino revealed in his new memoir that he donated his paycheck from the 1980 movie Cruising because he felt the film proved to be "exploitative" of the LGBTQ+ community.. In Sonny Boy, which is ...
He was the son of Henry Alexander Mavor (1858–1915), an electrical engineer and industrialist, and his wife Janet Osborne. [6] [7] He went to school at Glasgow Academy and then studied medicine at the University of Glasgow graduating in 1913, [8] later becoming a general practitioner, then consultant physician and professor after serving as a military physician during World War I, seeing ...
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The Tale of Beryn is the first tale told on the journey back to the Tabard Inn in Southwark. Told by the Merchant, it is a long tale of 3,290 lines. Its portrayal of merchants in a positive (or at least neutral) light make it peculiar in the Middle Ages. [1] Beryn is the son of Faunus and Agea, a wealthy couple in Rome. Beryn's parents do not ...
Chaucer scholarship has long assumed that no manuscripts of the Tales existed before Chaucer's death in 1400. The Ellesmere manuscript, conventionally dated to the first decades of the fifteenth century, would therefore be one of the first extant manuscripts of the Tales. More recently, the manuscript has been dated to c. 1405 or earlier ...
Irving locked himself in his room and wrote nonstop all night. As he said, he felt like a man waking from a long sleep. He presented the first draft of "Rip Van Winkle" to the van Wart family over breakfast. [6] "Rip Van Winkle" was one of the first stories Irving proposed for his new book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.