"The Canterbury Tales (film) The Canterbury Tales () is a 1972 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and based on the medieval narrative poem ""The Canterbury Tales"" by Geoffrey Chaucer. It is the second film in Pasolini's ""Trilogy of Life"", the others being ""The Decameron"" and ""Arabian Nights"". It won the Golden Bear at the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival. The adaptation covers eight of the 24 tales and contains abundant nudity, sex and slapstick humour. Many of these scenes are present or at least alluded to in the original as well, but some are Pasolini's own additions. The"
"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"
"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"
"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 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 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"
"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"
"in English literature. It is also open to a wide range of interpretations. The question of whether ""The Canterbury Tales"" is a finished work has not been answered to date. There are 84 manuscripts and four incunabula (printed before c 1540) editions of the work, dating from the late medieval and early Renaissance periods, more than for any other vernacular literary text with the exception of ""The Prick of Conscience"". This is taken as evidence of the ""Tales""' popularity during the century after Chaucer's death. Fifty-five of these manuscripts are thought to have been originally complete, while 28 are so"
"Canterbury Tales (musical) Canterbury Tales is a musical originally presented at the Oxford Playhouse in 1964, conceived and directed by Martin Starkie and written by Nevill Coghill and Martin Starkie. It was expanded into a full length musical and presented at the Phoenix Theatre, London on 21 March 1968 and ran for 2,080 performances. The music was written by Richard Hill and John Hawkins, with the lyrics by Nevill Coghill. There are two versions of this musical (""Canterbury Tales"" and ""More Canterbury Tales""), each making up about half the story. Martin Starkie was the first person to dramatise Chaucer's 'The"
"""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"
"The Tale of Melibee The Tale of Melibee (also called The Tale of Melibeus) is one of ""The Canterbury Tales"" by Geoffrey Chaucer. This is the second tale told by Chaucer himself as a character within the tales. It has long been regarded as a joke on the part of Chaucer that, after being interrupted by the host Harry Bailly, Chaucer launches into one of the longest and some would say most boring of all the tales. The idea that Melibee is simply told by Chaucer to bore the listeners in revenge for having his first story, Sir Thopas, interrupted"
"Good Women"", and ""Troilus and Criseyde"". He is best known today for ""The Canterbury Tales"". His work was crucial in legitimising the literary use of the Middle English vernacular at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin. Chaucer was born in London sometime around 1343, though the precise date and location remain unknown. His father and grandfather were both London vintners, and several previous generations had been merchants in Ipswich. His family name is derived from the French ""chausseur"", meaning ""shoemaker"". In 1324, his father John Chaucer was kidnapped by an aunt in the"
"to be merely a setup for future works. Though Chaucer wrote ""the Canterbury Tales"" and ""The Tale of Gamelyn"" is supposed to be included, it has been officially noted as an anonymous work. In addition, ""The Tale of Gamelyn"" is included in two early manuscript versions of the Tales, British Library, MS Harley 7334 and Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 198, both once notorious for being one of the lower-quality early manuscripts in terms of editor error and alteration. It is now widely rejected by scholars as an authentic Chaucerian tale, although some scholars think he may have intended to"
"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""."
"the stanza from breaking in half. This metrical style gives an elevated, spacious tone to ""The Monk's Tale"" that is not always evidenced in the diction. In fact, the language is often simple and direct except in those instances of moralizing, whether discussing God or Fortune, when the vocabulary becomes weightier. 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,"
"short stories, or novella that remained part of a European oral culture of storytelling into the late 19th century. Fairy tales, jokes, and humorous stories designed to make a point in a conversation, and the exemplum a priest would insert in a sermon belong into this tradition. Written collections of such stories circulated in a wide range of products from practical compilations of examples designed for the use of clerics to compilations of various stories such as Boccaccio's ""Decameron"" (1354) and Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"" (1386–1400). The ""Decameron"" (1354) was a compilation of one hundred novelle told by ten people—seven"
"Ellesmere Chaucer 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"". Written most likely in the first or second decade of the fifteenth century, the early history of the manuscript is uncertain, but it seems to have been owned by John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford (1408–1462). The manuscript takes its popular name from the fact that it later belonged to Sir"
"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"
"The Parson's Tale The Parson's Tale seems, from the evidence of its prologue, to have been intended as the final tale of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetic cycle ""The Canterbury Tales"". The ""tale"", which is the longest of all the surviving contributions by Chaucer's pilgrims, is in fact neither a story nor a poem, but a long and unrelieved prose treatise on penance. Critics and readers are generally unclear what rhetorical effect Chaucer may have intended by ending his cycle in this unlikely, extra-generic fashion. In the prologue to the tale, the host asks the Parson for a fable (the form used"
"(59 copies) along with ""Canterbury Tales"" (72 copies) and ""Piers Plowman"" (63 copies). In genre it is usually considered a poem of consolation, a medieval form inspired by Boethius' ""Consolation of Philosophy"" and typified by works such as ""Pearl"". Despite this, it is more usually studied alongside other tale collections with similar structures, such as the ""Decameron"" of Boccaccio, and particularly Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"", with which the ""Confessio"" has several stories in common. Composition of the work probably began circa 1386, and the work was completed in 1390. The prologue of this first recension recounts that the work was commissioned"
"Canterbury Tales' for the stage since it was written over 600 years ago. By working closely with Nevill Coghill and using a celebrated modern English translation of Chaucer's work, Starkie ensured that the completed text is a convincing interpretation of Chaucer's work It was considered to be very bawdy, and was written soon after the Lord Chamberlain's censorship of the theatre had just ended. The musical took five tales from the Canterbury Tales and told them with song and humour. These were; The Miller's Tale; The Nun's Priest's Tale; The Steward's Tale; The Merchant's Tale; and The Wife of Bath's"
"The Merchant's Tale ""The Merchant's Tale"" () is one of Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"". In it Chaucer subtly mocks antifeminist literature like that of Theophrastus ('Theofraste'). The tale also shows the influence of Boccaccio (""Decameron"": 7th day, 9th tale), Deschamps' """", ""Roman de la Rose"" by Guillaume de Lorris (translated into English by Chaucer), Andreas Capellanus, Statius and Cato. The tale is found in Persia in the Bahar Danush, in which the husband climbs a date tree instead of a pear tree. It could have arrived in Europe through the One Thousand and One Nights, or perhaps the version in"
"novel. He had also published five short story collections before this book. Clarke mentioned in an interview that he listened ""very attentively"" to American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Miles Davis while writing some of the sections of the novel. Clarke structured the novel in the form of short stories. The novel was published by Thomas Allen Publishers in November 2002. Clarke mentioned that he got inspired by British poet and writer Geoffrey Chaucer's ""The Canterbury Tales"", a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English and its ""non-traditional"" usage. He also noted that"
"her time. The Wife of Bath's Tale The Wife of Bath's Tale () is among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"". It provides insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and was probably of interest to Chaucer himself, for the character is one of his most developed ones, with her Prologue twice as long as her Tale. He also goes so far as to describe two sets of clothing for her in his General Prologue. She holds her own among the bickering pilgrims, and evidence in the manuscripts suggests that although she was first assigned"
"The Wife of Bath's Tale The Wife of Bath's Tale () is among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"". It provides insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and was probably of interest to Chaucer himself, for the character is one of his most developed ones, with her Prologue twice as long as her Tale. He also goes so far as to describe two sets of clothing for her in his General Prologue. She holds her own among the bickering pilgrims, and evidence in the manuscripts suggests that although she was first assigned a different,"
"Canterbury tale. John Bale similarly included ""Arator Narratio"" (Plowman's Tale) in his list of the ""Canterbury Tales"" in his ""Scriptorum Illustrium Maioris Brytanniae . . . Catalogus"" (Basle, 1557, 1559). Corroborating Francis Thynne, Leland's remarks on ""The Plowman's Tale"" are as follows: ""But the tale of Piers Plowman, which by the common consent of the learned is attributed to Chaucer as its true author, has been suppressed in each edition, because it vigorously inveighed against the bad morals of the priests"" (""Commentarii de Scriptoribus Britannicis"" ed. Anthony Hall. Like Bale's Chaucer, Leland's Chaucer is a reformer and follower of Wycliffe."
"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"
"The Second Nun's Tale ""The Second Nun's Tale"" (Middle English: ""Þe Seconde Nonnes Tale""), originally written in late Middle English, is part of Geoffrey Chaucer's ""The Canterbury Tales"", which was a collection of 24 stories telling of various people. Told by a nun concerned only with spiritual matters, ""The Second Nun's Tale"" tells the story of Saint Cecilia. The hagiography (saint's life) was a popular story format during the life of Chaucer. Like many of the tales told by the pilgrims, ""The Second Nun's Tale"" incorporates elements from Dante. The lack of portrait for the second nun in the General"
"""Tales"", and had access to draft materials. The Ellesmere manuscript is conventionally referred to as El in studies of the ""Tales"" and their textual history. A facsimile edition is available. Ellesmere Chaucer 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"". Written most likely in the first or second decade of the fifteenth century, the early history of the manuscript is uncertain, but"
"their points. Dame Prudence is a woman discussing the role of the wife within marriage in a similar way to the Wife of Bath and the wife in The Shipman's Tale. The Tale of Melibee The Tale of Melibee (also called The Tale of Melibeus) is one of ""The Canterbury Tales"" by Geoffrey Chaucer. This is the second tale told by Chaucer himself as a character within the tales. It has long been regarded as a joke on the part of Chaucer that, after being interrupted by the host Harry Bailly, Chaucer launches into one of the longest and some"
"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."
"reveal the complex turmoil surrounding Chaucer in the time of the ""Tales""' writing. Many of his close friends were executed and he himself moved to Kent to get away from events in London. While some readers look to interpret the characters of ""The Canterbury Tales"" as historical figures, other readers choose to interpret its significance in less literal terms. After analysis of Chaucer's diction and historical context, his work appears to develop a critique of society during his lifetime. Within a number of his descriptions, his comments can appear complimentary in nature, but through clever language, the statements are ultimately"
"the oldest existing manuscripts of the tales include new or modified tales, showing that even early on, such additions were being created. These emendations included various expansions of the ""Cook's Tale"", which Chaucer never finished, ""The Plowman's Tale"", ""The Tale of Gamelyn"", the ""Siege of Thebes"", and the ""Tale of Beryn"". The ""Tale of Beryn"", written by an anonymous author in the 15th century, is preceded by a lengthy prologue in which the pilgrims arrive at Canterbury and their activities there are described. While the rest of the pilgrims disperse throughout the town, the Pardoner seeks the affections of Kate"