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"The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale", middle-english hypertext with glossary and side-by-side middle english and modern english; Modern Translation of the Pardoner's Tale and Other Resources at eChaucer; The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale e-text for reading, searching, and study Archived 7 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine – texts.crossref-it.info
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 ...
Oxford City - Nicholas the student tricks the carpenter, also used when Alan and John leave Molly and Simkin in The Reeve's Tale. Newlyn Town - Alison farts in Absolon's face, and is also used in the brothel scene in The Pardoner's Tale. The Brown Thorn - the wife of Bath meets Jenkin. Padstow Obby Oss song- the wife of Bath meets Jenkin at the ...
A Canterbury Tale, a 1944 film, jointly written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is loosely based on the narrative frame of Chaucer's tales. The movie opens with a group of medieval pilgrims journeying through the Kentish countryside as a narrator speaks the opening lines of the General Prologue.
A film noir set in the Asian community of Gravesend. Jetender is a wealthy money-lender and importer/exporter: an Asian 'godfather' figure to his community. He goes into business with the young Pushpinder, who falls in love with Jetender's beautiful and extravagant wife, Meena.
SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy.
The Prologue to the Tale of Beryn begins upon the pilgrims’ arrival in Canterbury, where they lodge at the inn, “The Checker of the Hoop.” (1–12).While the company is dining at the inn, the Pardoner, disgusted with how the meal is served according to social hierarchy, leaves the fellowship to instead speak with the barmaid, Kit (13–22).
The Pardoner's materialistic orientation, his suspicious relics and accusations of sinfulness (evident in his conflict with the Host) align him with Paul's account of the "outward Jew, circumcised only in the flesh", rather than the "inward" Jew of Romans 2.29 who is spiritually rather than literally circumcised: "the Pardoner, outwardly 'a ...