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  2. 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.

  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. 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. [1]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 ...

  5. Ellesmere Chaucer - Wikipedia

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    The Ellesmere Chaucer, or Ellesmere Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, is an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, owned by the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California (EL 26 C 9). It is considered one of the most significant copies of the Tales.

  6. The Pardoner's Tale - Wikipedia

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    In the order of The Canterbury Tales, the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale are preceded by "The Physician's Tale".This is a harrowing tale about a judge who plots with a "churl [low fellow]" to abduct a beautiful young woman.

  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. Category:The Canterbury Tales - Wikipedia

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    A Commentary on the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales; The Cook's Tale; E. Ellesmere Chaucer; F. ... Order of The Canterbury Tales; P. The Pardoner's Tale; The ...

  9. The Summoner's Tale - Wikipedia

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    The Summoner uses the tale to satirise friars in general, with their long sermonising and their tendency to live well despite vows of poverty. It reflects on the theme of clerical corruption, a common one within The Canterbury Tales and within the wider 14th-century world as seen by the Lollard movement. The attitude of the lord implies that he ...

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