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Geoffrey Chaucer

Books on: prologue to the canterbury tales

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Geoffrey Chaucer's the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1988

Subjects:

Chaucer, Geoffrey--D. 1400--Canterbury Tales--Prologue, Christian Pilgrims And Pilgrimages In Literature, Prologues And Epilogues--History And Criticism

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

-- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature
-- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism
-- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index
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A Commentary on the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Book by Muriel Bowden; Macmillan, 1948

Subjects:

Chaucer, Geoffrey--D. 1400--Canterbury Tales--Prologue, Christian Pilgrims And Pilgrimages In Literature, Fiction

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...THE GENERAL PROLOGUE TO THE CANTERBURY TALES THE MACMILLAN...General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales , and to...author of the fifteenth-century Prologue and Tale...his plan to continue Chaucers Canterbury Tales , begins...
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Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales

Book by Laura C. Lambdin, Robert T. Lambdin; Praeger, 1999

Subjects:

Chaucer, Geoffrey--D. 1400--Canterbury Tales--Selections, Chaucer, Geoffrey--D. 1400--Characters--Pilgrims, Christian Pilgrims And Pilgrimages In Literature, Literature And History--England, Occupations In Literature, Occupations--England--History, Professions--England--History, Tales, Medieval--History And Criticism

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

To have a clear understanding of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the reader needs to know about the vocations of the pilgrims. For some 600 years, this information has been difficult to locate. This reference provides a detailed historical description of the occupations of Chaucer's pilgrims. An entry ...
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To have a clear understanding of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the reader needs to know about the vocations of the pilgrims. For some 600 years, this information has been difficult to locate. This reference provides a detailed historical description of the occupations of Chaucer's pilgrims. An entry is devoted to each traveler, and the entries have similar formats to foster comparison. Each entry discusses the historical daily routine of the pilgrim's occupation, the portrayal of the profession in Chaucer's poem, and the relationship between the tale and Chaucer's "General Prologue."
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The Canterbury Tales

Book by Helen Cooper; Oxford University Press, 1996

Subjects:

Chaucer, Geoffrey--d. 1400--Canterbury tales, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature, Tales, Medieval--History and criticism

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

Since its first publication in 1989, Helen Cooper's guide to The Canterbury Tales has established itself as the standard work on the poem. This second edition continues to offer the most comprehensive scrutiny of the Tales both as a whole and individually. In addition, Cooper incorporates the most ...
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Since its first publication in 1989, Helen Cooper's guide to The Canterbury Tales has established itself as the standard work on the poem. This second edition continues to offer the most comprehensive scrutiny of the Tales both as a whole and individually. In addition, Cooper incorporates the most significant recent scholarship and criticism, reflecting current research in the areas of Chaucer's historical and social context and developments in the interpretation of Chaucer's presentation of women.
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Chaucer's Drama of Style: Poetic Variety and Contrast in the Canterbury Tales

Book by C. David Benson; University of North Carolina Press, 1986

Subjects:

Chaucer, Geoffrey--d. 1400--Canterbury tales, Chaucer, Geoffrey--d. 1400--Technique, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature, Poetics, Rhetoric, Medieval

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...General Prologue to support a...reading of the Canterbury Tales is faced...such as the prologues to the Millers...Friars tales, though exciting...because the Canterbury Tales is...General Prologue, has long...interpretations of the Canterbury Tales . Chaucerians...Kittredges time to the present...

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Journal Articles on: prologue to the canterbury tales

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From French 'Fabliau Manuscripts' and Ms Harley 2253 to the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales

Journal article by Carter Revard; Medium Aevum, Vol. 69, 2000

Subjects:

Anglo-Saxon poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., French poetry--To 1500, Literature, Medieval--Stories, plots, etc., Manuscripts, Medieval--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Canterbury Tales (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...out to create a `book of the Tales of Canterbury that would be comparable to such an anthology as those...than grouped by genres: first the Knights Tale, then the Millers; first the Wife of Baths Prologue, which is essentially a series...
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Desire, Violence and the Passion in Fragment VII of the Canterbury Tales: A Girardian Reading(1)

Journal article by Curtis Gruenler; Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, Vol. 52, 1999

Subjects:

Chaucer, Geoffrey--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Desire--Portrayals, depictions, etc., English literature, 1100-1485 (Middle English period)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Canterbury Tales (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Violence in literature--Analysis

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...developed in the tales strong identification with the emotions...feature of this prologue, the Prioresss...of herself to a one-year-old...as a guide to maintaining...Throughout the Canterbury Tales, Wallace...numbers refer to Fragment VII of The Canterbury Tales unless specified...
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R. Allen Shoaf, Chaucer's Body: The Anxiety of Circulation in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Journal article by Alcuin Blamires; Medium Aevum, Vol. 72, 2003

Subjects:

Chaucer's Body: the Anxiety of Circulation in the 'Canterbury Tales' (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the Anxiety of Circulation in the Canterbury Tales. by Alcuin Blamires...frankly bizarre. He proposes that in the Tales, infection, the consequence...drunken Cooks infectious breath (prologue to the Manciples Tale), is actually...
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Sweetness and Sweat: The Extraordinary Emanations in Fragment Eight of the 'Canterbury Tales.'

Journal article by Bruce Kent Cowgill; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 74, 1995

Subjects:

Chaucer, Geoffrey--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English literature, 1100-1485 (Middle English period)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Perspiration--Portrayals, depictions, etc., The Canterbury Tales (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Eight of the Canterbury Tales. by...Among the arresting...Canons Yeomans Prologue,(1) Chaucer...wonder was to see" (8.560...Canons Yeomans Prologue and Tale...contention that the two tales contrast...monasticism. The Canterbury Tales and...evidence to establish the late-medieval...First Five Canterbury Tales (Stanford...
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Sources and Analogues of 'The Canterbury Tales'

Journal article by Peter Brown; Medium Aevum, Vol. 76, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Sources and Analogues of 'The Canterbury Tales', vol. 2 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Analogues of Chaucers Canterbury Tales by W. F. Bryan...translated versions of the texts, includes...on the General Prologue and Retraction...and two analogues to the Wife of Baths...derivative of all the Canterbury Tales, it has no single...

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Magazine Articles on: prologue to the canterbury tales

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The Medieval World

Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 55, May 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Charlemagne: The Great Adventure (Book)--Book reviews, Mammoth Book of King Arthur (Book)--Book reviews, Queen Emma and the Vikings: A History of Power, Love and Greed in Eleventh-Century England (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...individuals whose lives were touched by it. Chaucer and Clothing:. Clerical and Academic Costume in the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (D.S. Brewer, 30 pounds sterling) by English literature scholar and costume historian Laura Hodge, is the...
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History with the Boring Bits Put Back: Terry Jones, Former Python, Describes How a Perverse Fascination with the Boring Bits of Chaucer Converted Him from Being a Clown into a Historian of the 14th Century

Magazine article by Terry Jones; History Today, Vol. 54, February 2004

Subjects:

Chaucer, Geoffrey--Criticism and interpretation, Historians--14th century AD, Historians--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes

Collections: History, Entire Library

...imagined. Later I wanted to do a television series based on the Canterbury Tales characters, taking them as...complicated as you would have had to explain what the Canterbury Tales was, before talking about those...
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Astrology and English Literature

Magazine article by Annabella Kitson; Contemporary Review, Vol. 269, October 1996

Subjects:

Astrology--Portrayals, depictions, etc., English literature--Themes, motives

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Criseyde and many of The Canterbury Tales contain carefully plotted secret meanings, the characters and events often...social life, and on allusion to it in works of art; but...the wife of Bath in her Prologue, defining herself by the...
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2000 Books of the Year

Magazine article; New Statesman, Vol. 129, November 27, 2000

Subjects:

Books--Bibliography

Collections: Entire Library

...mixes together murder, fairy tales, Rousseau, pornographers and the internet to dazzling effect, had made...biography, pensee and literary prologue. The biographies are characteristic...anniversary, I skipped through The Canterbury Tales. They seemed as fresh...
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Japanese American Dilemmas

Magazine article by J.A. Hijiya; The Antioch Review, Vol. 66, Spring 2008

Subjects:

Belonging--Personal narratives, Ethnic identity--Personal narratives, Ethnicity--Personal narratives, Japanese Americans--Social aspects

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...visit and had had a few drinks, I recited poetry to the gathered family after dinner. As I finished...Bob announced, quot;That apos;s The Canterbury TalesThe General Prologue. quot; I was amazed. Bob had finished high school...

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Newspaper Articles on: prologue to the canterbury tales

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REVIEWS: Tales of the Extraordinary; the Canterbury Tales Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Terry Grimley Recommends a Pilgrimage to Stratford-upon-Avon for the RSC's Chaucer Extravaganza

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), December 12, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...pilgrimage to Canterbury - to bring together...staging of almost the complete tales by the RSC is...account of the prologue is pure gold...disorientating experience to spend six hours...stumble out into the cold and dark...of Chaucers Canterbury Tales
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The Pounds 4.6M Tale; ..BUT OUR POTTED CHAUCER WON'T COST YOU A FORTUNE

Newspaper article by Anton Antonowicz; The Mirror (London, England), July 10, 1998

Subjects:

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...guide to the Tales. To you, not pounds...6million. Just the 30p price of your Mirror. PROLOGUE: Pilgrims meet...the way to Canterbury and back. In...heeth GENERAL PROLOGUE, THE CANTERBURY TALES When in April...drought of March to the root...
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High-Pass A-Levels Lose out on Literature

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 24, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Richard II (1595). 2, Ben Jonson - To Celia (1616). 3, John Milton - Paradise Lost (1667). 4, John Bunyan - The Pilgrims Progress (1678). 5, Geoffrey Chaucer (c1343-1400) - The Canterbury Tales (The General Prologue).
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Chuckling into Middle Age

Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), February 8, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...confusing lines in the prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales. I thought if its...Joness mission was to trash myths of the...as well as a book to accompany the programme, Terry Jones...off on another trip to the Himalayas and we were...
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REVIEWS: Weird Characters Fail to Compensate for Lack of Humour; She Stoops to Conquer Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton; ***

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), November 1, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...include the RSCs sparkling Canterbury Tales. Here, though, it is as if he has realised the play is not actually that...counter-productive: its inconceivable, to seize on one small but irritating...added an anachronistic verse prologue and epilogue which recasts...

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