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Encyclopedia: The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained inside a frame tale and told by a collection of pilgrims on a pilgrimage from Southwark to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.^[1] The Canterbury Tales are written in Middle English.

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How to say "The Canterbury Tales" in other languages:

	(Japanese)	カンタベリー物語
	(German)	Canterbury Tales
	(Spanish)	Cuentos de Canterbury
	(French)	Les Contes de Cantorbéry
	(Italian)	I racconti di Canterbury (poema)

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Dryden

There are several people and places named Dryden People: poet John Dryden icehockey player Ken Dryden NASA administrator Hugh L. Dryden Dryden is a fictional character in Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale (one of the Canterbury Tales ) Places: Dryden, Ontario Dryden (village), New York...

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Ellesmere manuscript

The Ellesmere manuscript is an early 15th century manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, held in the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California. There is another early manuscript of the same called the Hengwrt manuscript, and they are believed to be by the same scribe, though the Ellesmere...

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Hengwrt manuscript

The Hengwrt manuscript is an early 15th century manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, held in the National Library of Wales, in Aberystwyth. There is another early manuscript of the same called the Ellesmere manuscript, and they are believed to be by the same scribe, though the Ellesmere manuscript...

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The Decameron (movie)

! | Mamma Roma | The Gospel According to St. Matthew | Love Meetings | The Hawks and the Sparrows | The Witches | Oedipus Rex | Theorem | Love and Anger | Pigpen | Medea | The Decameron | The Canterbury... The Decameron is a 1970 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and is based on the novel...

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The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale

The Pardoner's Tale is one of The Canterbury Tales. It is regarded by many as one of the finest of... described as a good speaker in his portrait in the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. The quality... certainly one of the most interesting of The Canterbury Tales...

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Chaucer's Retraction

Chaucer's Retraction is the final section of the Canterbury Tales. It is written as an apology, where Chaucer apologises for the vulgar and unworthy parts of this and other past works, and seeks... the parlemen of briddes; the tales of counterbury, Thilke that sownen into synne;/ the book of the...

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Breton lai

author The Franklin's Tale, one of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Sir Launfal, by Thomas..., rhymed tales of love and chivalry, often involving supernatural and fairy-world Celtic motifs. The earliest surviving Breton lais are those of Marie de France, a French woman poet who lived in the late...

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Tabard

; the ploughman wears a tabard in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales . See all the Tabard Inn... on the front and back with the arms of the sovereign, and worn, as their distinctive garment, by heralds and pursuivants. A similar garment with short sleemes or without sleeves was worn in the middle...

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Billie Piper

BBC Television series The Canterbury Tales (modern retellings of Chaucer's stories) and the one-off... sixteen-year age gap between the two. Screenography Television: The Canterbury Tales: The Miller's Tale (BBC ONE, 2003) Bella and the Boys (BBC TWO, 2004) Doctor Who (BBC ONE, forthcoming) Film...

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Geoffrey Chaucer

and remembered as the author of The Canterbury Tales . He is sometimes credited with being the first... Criseyde and of The Canterbury Tales , a collection of stories (told by fictional pilgrims on the road to the cathedral at Canterbury) that would help to shape English literature. Chaucer's Chanticleer and...

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