"a page and squire, is a natural source, this identification may be extended by considering the Squire as a personification of Chaucer. He is indeed, the only poet in the group, and his protestations of his own limited poetical powers, mirror and indeed self-parody Chaucer's own. The Squire (Canterbury Tales) The Squire is a fictional character in the framing narrative of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He is squire to (and son of) the Knight and is the narrator of The Squire's Tale or ""Cambuscan"". The Squire is one of the secular pilgrims, of the military group (The Squire, The Knight"
"The Knight's Tale ""The Knight's 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. We are told that he has taken part in some fifteen crusades in many countries and also fought for one pagan leader against another. However though the list of campaigns, mentioned by Chaucer, is real, ""and though it was perhaps just possible for one man to have been in them all, [it] is probably idealized."" Chaucer's"
"General Prologue The General Prologue is the first part of Chaucer's ""The Canterbury Tales"". 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. The setting is April, and the prologue starts by singing the praises"
"Order of The Canterbury Tales ""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 before Chaucer's death. It is uncertain in what order Chaucer intended the tales to appear; moreover it is very possible that, as a work-in-progress, no final authorial order of tales ever"
"in sundry lands, and especially they wend their way to Canterbury from every shire of England to seek the holy blessed martyr, who helped them when they were ill. General Prologue The General Prologue is the first part of Chaucer's ""The Canterbury Tales"". 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"
"Prologue and Tale of Beryn The Prologue and Tale of Beryn are spurious 15th century additions to Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales."" They are both written in Middle English. 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). After giving the barmaid his staff, Kit shows the Pardoner where she sleeps, “al"
"The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales () is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. In 1386, Chaucer became Controller of Customs and Justice of Peace and, in 1389, Clerk of the King's work. It was during these years that Chaucer began working on his most famous text, ""The Canterbury Tales"". The tales (mostly written in verse, although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together from London to Canterbury to visit"
"with stories. He lays out his plan: each pilgrim will tell two stories on the way to Canterbury and two on the way back. Whoever has told the most meaningful and comforting stories, with ""the best sentence and moost solaas"" (line 798) will receive a free meal paid for by the rest of the pilgrims upon their return. The company agrees and makes the Host its governor, judge, and record keeper. They set off the next morning and draw lots to determine who will tell the first tale. The Knight wins and prepares to tell his tale. The ""General Prologue"""
"times, the Tabard would have been filled with pilgrims, drunks, travellers, criminals, and prostitutes (colloquially known as the ""Winchester Geese""). Chaucer wrote that The Tabard was the location where the pilgrims first met on their journey to Canterbury in the 1380s. The inn's proprietor was a man named Harry Bailey: Bifel that in that season on a day,In Southwerk at the Tabard as I layRedy to wenden on my pilgrymageTo Caunterbury with ful devout corage,At nyght was come into that hostelryeWel nyne and twenty in a compaignyeOf sondry folk, by aventure yfalleIn felaweshipe, and pilgrimes were they alle,That toward Caunterbury"
"version that was first staged in 1964. ""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"". The scene then makes a now-famous transition to the time of World War II. From that point on, the film follows a group of strangers, each with his or her own story and in need of some kind of redemption, who are"
"existed. Several different orders are evident in the manuscripts of the work; in addition certain orders and structures of the Tales have been proposed by scholars. The table below enumerates all the pilgrims mentioned in the General Prologue, plus two that materialise later in the tales, and the stories they tell. It also compares the orders in which stories appear in various sources. Scholarly arrangements Manuscripts: Over 80 manuscripts containing all or part of ""The Canterbury Tales"" exist. The six tabulated below represent the four main orders (El, Cx, La, Pw) in which tales appear in the manuscripts, plus two"
"significant anomalous arrangements (Hg, Ha). All manuscript orders (except Hg*) were collated by Furnivall. ""(+G = Manuscript includes the non-Chaucerian Tale of Gamelyn after the Cook's initial abortive attempt to tell a tale.)"" Order of The Canterbury Tales ""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"
"stories are linked to the arrival of a group of pilgrims at Canterbury, among whom is the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, played by Pasolini himself. First Tale (The Merchant's Tale) The elderly merchant Sir January decides to marry May, a young woman who has little interest in him. After they are married, the merchant suddenly becomes blind, and insists on constantly holding on to his wife' wrist as consolation for the fact that he cannot see her. While the two are walking in the January's private garden, May asks to eat mulberries from one of the trees. Taking advantage of her"
"Canterbury Tales"" is a collection of stories built around a frame narrative or frame tale, a common and already long established genre of its 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. Even in the ""Decameron"", storytellers are encouraged to stick to the theme decided on for the day. The idea of a pilgrimage to get such a diverse collection of people together for literary purposes was also unprecedented, though ""the association of pilgrims and storytelling was a familiar one""."
"Tale. In addition, Chaucer's Prologue and Epilogue were spoken. The purpose behind these stories was that Harry Bailey, one of the main characters, declares that each pilgrim should tell a tale on the way to Canterbury so that the ride would be more enjoyable. ""The Miller's Tale"" is about a man named Nicholas, who studied astrology and the art of love at Oxford. Nicolas boards with a wealthy man named John who has a very attractive eighteen-year-old wife named Alisoun. John is highly possessive and very jealous of anyone who even speaks to his wife. One day, Alisoun and Nicholas"
"Sir Thopas Sir Thopas is one of ""The Canterbury Tales"" by Geoffrey Chaucer, published in 1387. The tale is one of two—together with The Tale of Melibee—told by the fictive Geoffrey Chaucer as he travels with the pilgrims on the journey to Canterbury Cathedral. The tale concerns the adventures of the knight ""Sir Thopas"" and his quest to win the elf-queen. The tale is one of two told by the fictive Chaucer, along with the Tale of Melibee, who figures as one of the pilgrims who are on a journey to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. The"
"The Miller's Tale ""The Miller's 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 (to ""quite"" someone is to repay them for a service, the service here being the telling of stories). The general prologue to ""The Canterbury Tales"" describes the Miller, Robin, as a stout and evil churl fond of wrestling. In the Miller's Prologue, the pilgrims have just"
"world in which he lived. Storytelling was the main entertainment in England at the time, and storytelling contests had been around for hundreds of years. In 14th-century England the English Pui was a group with an appointed leader who would judge the songs of the group. The winner received a crown and, as with the winner of ""The Canterbury Tales"", a free dinner. It was common for pilgrims on a pilgrimage to have a chosen ""master of ceremonies"" to guide them and organise the journey. Harold Bloom suggests that the structure is mostly original, but inspired by the ""pilgrim"" figures"
"origin"" to explain the existence of the Way. However, F.C.Elliston-Erwood, A Kentish historian, notes that tithe records dating from before 1815 use the well established name ""Pilgrims' Way"" to reference and locate pieces of land. Earlier still, surviving thirteenth century documents show a ""Pilgrim Road"" by the walls of Thornham Castle, Kent, on what is today considered the route. The Pilgrims' Way is at the centre of the Powell and Pressburger film ""A Canterbury Tale"", with the camera panning along a map of the route at the start of the film. Anyone walking the 'Pilgrims Way' from Winchester would have"
"Chaucer has also described him as wearing green at all times. The Canon's Yeoman's Tale The Canon's Yeoman's Tale is one of ""The Canterbury Tales"" by Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canon and his Yeoman are not mentioned in the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, where most of the other pilgrims are described, but they arrive later after riding fast to catch up with the group. The tale the Canon's Yeoman tells is in two parts. The first part is an exposé of the shady business of his master the Canon as an alchemist. The second part is about another canon"
"the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey. Chaucer is best known today for ""The Canterbury Tales"", a collection of stories written in Middle English (mostly written in verse although some are in prose), that are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. Chaucer is a crucial figure in developing the legitimacy of the vernacular, Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin."
"The Franklin's Tale ""The Franklin's Tale"" () is one of ""The Canterbury Tales"" by Geoffrey Chaucer. It focuses on issues of providence, truth, generosity and ""gentillesse"" in human relationships. A franklin was a medieval landowner, and this pilgrim's words when interrupting the Squire are often seen as displaying his social status of ""diminutio."" Other such devices are employed throughout the tale. The story opens and closes by recounting how two lovers decide that their marriage should be one of equal status, although they agree that, in public, Arveragus should make decisions so as not to draw suspicion. Arveragus then travels"
"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, Peter I of Cyprus, Bernabò Visconti, Ugolino of Pisa, Nero, Holofernes, Antiochus, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Croesus. Some literary critics believe that a large portion of the tale may have been written before the rest of the ""Canterbury Tales"" and that the four most"
"The Canterbury Pilgrims The Canterbury Pilgrims is an opera by the American composer Reginald De Koven. It premiered at the Metropolitan Opera House on March 8, 1917. The libretto, written by Percy MacKaye, is loosely based on Geoffrey Chaucer's ""The Canterbury Tales"". Place: England. Time: April, 1387. The story has to do with the merry schemes of the Wife of Bath, who has fallen in love with Chaucer who in his turn loves the Prioress, and of her winning of a bet to gain possession of a certain brooch which carries with it Chaucer's promise of marriage. He is finally"
"John Urry. John Lydgate wrote ""The Siege of Thebes"" in about 1420. Like the ""Tale of Beryn"", it is preceded by a prologue in which the pilgrims arrive in Canterbury. Lydgate places himself among the pilgrims as one of them and describes how he was a part of Chaucer's trip and heard the stories. He characterises himself as a monk and tells a long story about the history of Thebes before the events of the ""Knight's Tale"". John Lydgate's tale was popular early on and exists in old manuscripts both on its own and as part of the ""Tales"". It"
"rescued by Richard II who decides that the Wife may marry a sixth time only on condition that she marry a miller. A devoted miller joyfully accepts the opportunity and the Prioress and Chaucer are reconciled. The Canterbury Pilgrims The Canterbury Pilgrims is an opera by the American composer Reginald De Koven. It premiered at the Metropolitan Opera House on March 8, 1917. The libretto, written by Percy MacKaye, is loosely based on Geoffrey Chaucer's ""The Canterbury Tales"". Place: England. Time: April, 1387. The story has to do with the merry schemes of the Wife of Bath, who has fallen"
"Chaucer was a courtier, leading some to believe that he was mainly a court poet who wrote exclusively for nobility. ""The Canterbury Tales"" is generally thought to have been incomplete at the end of Chaucer's life. In the General Prologue, some 30 pilgrims are introduced. According to the Prologue, Chaucer's intention was to write four stories from the perspective of each pilgrim, two each on the way to and from their ultimate destination, St. Thomas Becket's shrine (making for a total of about 120 stories). Although perhaps incomplete, ""The Canterbury Tales"" is revered as one of the most important works"
"The Canon's Yeoman's Tale The Canon's Yeoman's Tale is one of ""The Canterbury Tales"" by Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canon and his Yeoman are not mentioned in the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, where most of the other pilgrims are described, but they arrive later after riding fast to catch up with the group. The tale the Canon's Yeoman tells is in two parts. The first part is an exposé of the shady business of his master the Canon as an alchemist. The second part is about another canon who is also an alchemist who is even more devious than"
"period in which Chaucer had apparently gone missing and show what he might have done during this time, which Helgeland says later on in the commentary inspired Chaucer to write ""The Canterbury Tales"". (The first ""Canterbury Tale"" is ""The Knight's Tale"". There is some oversight in that a scene showing Count Adhemar in a war camp features a caption declaring it to be the Battle of Poitiers, which took place in 1356. Chaucer also threatens two men he meets in the film with undying humiliation through fiction; these characters seem to have inspired the vitriolic descriptions of the ""Tales"" Pardoner"
"""Tales"" are not Chaucer's originals. The very oldest is probably MS Peniarth 392 D (called ""Hengwrt""), written by a scribe shortly after Chaucer's death. The most beautiful, on the other hand, is the Ellesmere Manuscript, a manuscript handwritten by one person with illustrations by several illustrators; the tales are put in an order that many later editors have followed for centuries. The first version of ""The Canterbury Tales"" to be published in print was William Caxton's 1476 edition. Only 10 copies of this edition are known to exist, including one held by the British Library and one held by the"
"recalled to the WorldWeb and the seven pilgrims (the infant Rachel does not count) drawing lots to see who will tell their tale first in the hopes of revealing a reason they were chosen and how to survive. ""The Priest's Tale"" starts shortly after being awakened from ""fugue"" on an expensive and rare Templar Tree-Ship. It describes the stories of Father Paul Duré and Father Lenar Hoyt, two of only several thousand remaining members of the Roman Catholic Church. As a younger man, Father Lenar Hoyt is assigned to escort the Teilhardian-inclined Jesuit Father Paul Duré, a theologian, archaeologist and"
"The Canterbury Tales (TV series) The Canterbury Tales is a series of six single dramas that originally aired on BBC One in 2003. Each story is an adaptation of one of Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th century ""Canterbury Tales"" which are transferred to a modern, 21st century setting, but still set along the traditional Pilgrims' route to Canterbury. Repeats of the series in the UK have been on channels including ITV3. The anthology series was conceived by executive producers Laura Mackie and Franc Roddam in 2001, and produced by Kate Bartlett, while a number of writers and directors were chosen specifically to"
"Stories remain a common way of entertaining a group that is on a journey. Showing how stories are used to pass the time and entertain an audience of travellers, Chaucer used pilgrims in his literary work ""The Canterbury Tales"" in the 14th century, as did Wu Cheng'en in the 16th century in ""Journey to the West"". Even though journeys can now be completed much faster, stories are still told to passengers en route in cars and aeroplanes either orally or delivered by some form of technology. The power of stories to entertain is evident in one of the most famous"