The Nun's Priest's Tale

The Nun's Priest's Tale PDF Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Languages : en
Pages : 112

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The Nun's Priest's Tale

The Nun's Priest's Tale PDF Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Canterbury Tales

Canterbury Tales PDF Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Disseminal Chaucer

Disseminal Chaucer PDF Author: Peter W. Travis
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ISBN: 9780268042356
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Travis reassesses Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale and its reception as a traditionally confusing and simple tale.

Nun's Priest's Tale, the Shipman's Tale and the Prioress's Prologue and Tale

Nun's Priest's Tale, the Shipman's Tale and the Prioress's Prologue and Tale PDF Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Pavilion Records
ISBN: 9781899644162
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Languages : en
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Nuns' Priests' Tales

Nuns' Priests' Tales PDF Author: Fiona J. Griffiths
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812249755
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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List of Abbreviations -- Prologue -- The puzzle of the nuns' priest --Biblical models : women and men in the apostolic life -- Jerome and the noble women of Rome -- Brothers, sons, and uncles : nuns' priests and family ties -- Speaking to the bridegroom : women and the power of prayer -- Conclusion -- Appendix : Beati pauperes.

Five Canterbury Tales

Five Canterbury Tales PDF Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: OXFORD
ISBN: 9780194247580
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A retelling of five of Chaucer's classic tales in simplified language for new readers. Includes activities to enhance reading comprehension and improve vocabulary.

The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale

The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale PDF Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316615529
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81

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Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. This stunning full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer series explores the complete text of The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale through a wide range of classroom-tested activities and illustrated information, including a map of the Canterbury pilgrimage, a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words and suggestions for study. Cambridge School Chaucer makes medieval life and language more accessible, helping students appreciate Chaucer's brilliant characters, his wit, sense of irony and love of controversy.

The Regiment of Princes

The Regiment of Princes PDF Author: Thomas Hoccleve
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580444199
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Thomas Hoccleve was born in 1367 and entered government service as clerk in the office of the Privy Seal in 1387, an office that he held until his death in 1426. His earliest datable poem (the Epistle of Cupid, a free translation of Christine de Pisan's Epistre au Dieu d'Amour) was completed about 1402. The Regiment of Princes, written about 1410-11, was composed at a time when England was still feeling the consequences of the deposition of Richard II. Essentially it is addressed to a prince on the subject of his governance, but it exhibits considerable generic instability and thus raises fundamental questions about how we should understand the tone of considerable portions of the poem. For all the problems it presents, The Regiment shows that Hoccleve has strengths as a poet. At times he could be a very talented prosodist. In autobiographical sections of the poem he creates a most interesting early-modern subjectivity. He has distinctive observations to make about his time, and, in his self-critical awareness, probes the limits of what is means to be a poet writing in the wake of Chaucer.

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (continued).

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (continued). PDF Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Of Sondry Folk

Of Sondry Folk PDF Author: R. M. Lumiansky
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292760175
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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Two hundred years before Shakespeare observed that “all the world’s a stage,” another writer with a flair for drama realized the same fact. This writer was Geoffrey Chaucer. Chaucer, however, presented his dramatic efforts through the medium of short stories, and he is regularly referred to as one of the world’s great storytellers. Yet there are certain questions which arise time and again in the minds of literary scholars. Most of the tales in the Canterbury collection are excellent, but why did Chaucer include such obviously poor recitals as the dull “Melibeus” and the lengthy “Parson’s Tale”? Did he fail to recognize their lack of literary merit? Or were those of his stories which seem so dull to modern readers really popular in fourteenth-century England? Of Sondry Folk is Lumiansky’s answer to such questions. But it is more than that. It is the revelation of Chaucer as dramatic writer. Chaucer, says Lumiansky, did not intend primarily to tell a series of good tales. Instead, he chose tales which suited his purpose of dramatic exposition of character. And the characters, though drawn from many walks of life, are not stereotypes. Their tales not only disclose what the Pilgrims think of themselves but reveal these Pilgrims as they really are—dull, romantic, egotistical, pious, or lustful. Not all readers will agree with Lumiansky’s conclusions in this book. But his scholarship, his clear, uninvolved prose, and his wit and frankness make of it an excellent handbook for the student of the Canterbury Tales. Of Sondry Folk will increase the enjoyment and understanding of Chaucer’s art for any reader, lay or scholarly.