query: in the canterbury tales who is the prioress

pos: The Prioress's Tale The Prioress's Tale The Prioress's Tale () follows The Shipman's Tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales". Because of fragmentation of the manuscripts, it is impossible to tell where it comes in ordinal sequence, but it is second in group B2, followed by Chaucer's Tale of Sir Topas. The General Prologue names the prioress as Madame Eglantine, and describes her impeccable table manners and soft-hearted ways. Her portrait suggests she is likely in religious life as a means of social advancement, given her aristocratic manners and mispronounced French. She maintains a secular lifestyle, including keeping lap dogs that she privileges

pos: The Prioress's Tale tales of martyrdom circulated for worldly profit. The Prioress's Tale The Prioress's Tale () follows The Shipman's Tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales". Because of fragmentation of the manuscripts, it is impossible to tell where it comes in ordinal sequence, but it is second in group B2, followed by Chaucer's Tale of Sir Topas. The General Prologue names the prioress as Madame Eglantine, and describes her impeccable table manners and soft-hearted ways. Her portrait suggests she is likely in religious life as a means of social advancement, given her aristocratic manners and mispronounced French. She maintains a secular lifestyle,

neg: Canterbury Tales (musical) came to an end. • Chaucer • Clerk of Oxford • Host • The Miller • Nun • Prioress • Squire • Steward • Sweetheart • The Wife of Bath • Alisoun • Cook • Friar • Knight • May • Merchant • Molly • Pardoner • Priest • Robin • Summoner 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

neg: The Canterbury Pilgrims 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

neg: The Canterbury Pilgrims 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

neg: The Canterbury Tales a line. His meter would later develop into the heroic meter of the 15th and 16th centuries and is an ancestor of iambic pentameter. He avoids allowing couplets to become too prominent in the poem, and four of the tales (the Man of Law's, Clerk's, Prioress', and Second Nun's) use rhyme royal. "The Canterbury Tales" was written during a turbulent time in English history. The Catholic Church was in the midst of the Western Schism and, although it was still the only Christian authority in Europe, it was the subject of heavy controversy. Lollardy, an early English religious movement led

neg: St Leonard's Priory, London as well as of a daughter of William, Earl of Henault. Initially held by Geoffrey, Earl of Essex, the lands on which the priory stood had shifted to the prior and canons of Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate by 1292. It achieved notoriety in the Geoffrey Chaucer's description of the Nun Prioress in the General Prologue to his "Canterbury Tales": This was a barbed reference as it implied the Prioress had learned French from the Benedictine nuns in a distinct Anglo-Norman dialect. By this time the dialect had lost prestige and was being ridiculed as sub-standard French. The priory was destroyed

neg: The Second Nun's Tale Prologue has led some scholars to speculate that the tale is merely the second tale of the single nun or Prioress but this idea is not widely held. Its relationship to the subsequent Canon's Yeoman's tale is to offer a serious and worthy religious-themed story before a much more irreverent view of contemporary religious behaviour of foolish alchemists. Although it is unconfirmed what order Geoffrey Chaucer intended the Canterbury tales, and therefore where "The Second Nun's Tale" would place, the main scholarly consensus has placed "The Second Nun's Tale" in Fragment VIII (Group G) out of X of the Canterbury

neg: Wimple showed their elaborate braids. Both elaborate braiding and elaborately laundered clothes demonstrated status, in that such grooming was being performed by others. Today the wimple is worn by certain nuns who retain a traditional habit. The Wife of Bath and the Prioress are depicted wearing wimples in the "Canterbury Tales" of Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400). The King James Version of the Bible explicitly lists wimples in Isaiah 3:22 as one of a list of female fineries, however the Hebrew word "miṭpaḥoth" (מִטְפָּחוֹת) means kerchief. Jan Van Eycks Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride, 1434 Jan Van Eycks Portrait of Margaret van Eyck,

neg: Stereotypes of Jews in literature and Shakespeare had no direct knowledge of Jews." In "The Canterbury Tales", the Prioress tells a story of a devout Christian child who was murdered by Jews affronted at his singing a hymn as he passed through the Jewry, or Jewish quarter, of a city in Asia. Much later criticism focuses on the tale's anti-Semitism. Allen Koretsky asserts that, because the anti-Semitism in this tale runs counter to the generally positive image of Chaucer, it has been "ignored, excused, explained or palliated in a number of ways." Thus, a considerable body of critical and scholarly opinion holds that this speech,

neg: The Canterbury Tales of the devil, not God. Churchmen of various kinds are represented by the Monk, the Prioress, the Nun's Priest, and the Second Nun. Monastic orders, which originated from a desire to follow an ascetic lifestyle separated from the world, had by Chaucer's time become increasingly entangled in worldly matters. Monasteries frequently controlled huge tracts of land on which they made significant sums of money, while peasants worked in their employ. The Second Nun is an example of what a Nun was expected to be: her tale is about a woman whose chaste example brings people into the church. The Monk

neg: The Canterbury Tales and the Prioress, on the other hand, while not as corrupt as the Summoner or Pardoner, fall far short of the ideal for their orders. Both are expensively dressed, show signs of lives of luxury and flirtatiousness and show a lack of spiritual depth. The Prioress's Tale is an account of Jews murdering a deeply pious and innocent Christian boy, a blood libel against Jews that became a part of English literary tradition. The story did not originate in the works of Chaucer and was well known in the 14th century. Pilgrimage was a very prominent feature of medieval society.

neg: Rhyme royal his long poems "Troilus and Criseyde" and "Parlement of Foules". He also used it for four of the "Canterbury Tales": the "Man of Law's Tale", the "Prioress' Tale", the "Clerk's Tale", and the "Second Nun's Tale", and in a number of shorter lyrics. He may have adapted the form from a French ballade stanza or from the Italian "ottava rima", with the omission of the fifth line. James I of Scotland used rhyme royal for his Chaucerian poem "The Kingis Quair", and it is believed that the name of the stanza derives from this royal use. English and Scottish poets

neg: Bow, London Priory and immortalized in Chaucer's description of the Nun Prioress in the General Prologue to his "Canterbury Tales". However, Bow itself was still an isolated village by the early 14th century, often cut off from its parish church of St Dunstan's, Stepney by flood. In 1311 permission was granted to build St Mary's Church, Bow as a chapel of ease to allow the residents a local place of worship. The land was granted by Edward III, on the King's highway, thus beginning a tradition of "island" church building. Bow was made an Anglican parish of its own in 1719, with

neg: Sybil Montagu, Prioress of Amesbury Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury, ordered that she receive "suitable sustenance for herself and her servants from the spiritual and temporal possessions belonging to the said priory of Amesbury" until a visitation of the house could be conducted by the Archbishop and the ills remedied. Again, the doughty Sybil survived and maintained her position as prioress. Though information on the outcome of various phases of these repeated investigations have not survived, she was to continue in as prioress for many years, dying only in 1420. At her death, it was Henry V who licensed the subprioress and nuns to proceed

neg: The Canterbury Tales (film) "Canterbury Tales". The following locations were used as settings for the tales: 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

neg: The Prioress's Tale distant and unfocused evil quality than is usual in such stories. The Physician's Tale is a similar story about an innocent child persecuted by an implacable enemy but without the anti-Semitic tone. Her tale, with its emphasis on infantile faith, balances the Shipman's story of a too-sophisticated monk who sleeps with the wife of a friend. Both tales seem to describe extremes, [Her] faith without knowledge versus [his] knowledge without faith. In "Chaucer's Prioress and the Sacrifice of Praise", Sherman Hawkins opposes the Pardoner and the Prioress as the representatives of two radically different forms of religious expression. The Pardoner's

neg: Order of The Canterbury Tales 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

neg: The Canterbury 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

neg: The Canterbury Tales 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

neg: Canterbury Tales (musical) 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

neg: The Canterbury Tales (film) 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

neg: Story within a story creation, who narrates the story of a cabin dwelling family he secretly observes. Similarly, Roald Dahl's story "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" is about a rich bachelor who finds an essay written by someone who learnt to "see" playing cards from the reverse side. The full text of this essay is included in the story, and itself includes a lengthy sub-story told as a true experience by one of the essay's protagonists, Imhrat Khan. Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" and Boccacio's Decameron are also classic frame stories. In Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", the characters tell tales suited to their personalities and

neg: The Canterbury Tales (TV series) 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

neg: Order of The Canterbury Tales 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

neg: The Canterbury Tales of Dante and Virgil in "The Divine Comedy". New research suggests that the General Prologue, in which the innkeeper and host Harry Bailey introduces each pilgrim, is a pastiche of the historical Harry Bailey's surviving 1381 poll-tax account of Southwark's inhabitants. "The Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio contains more parallels to "The Canterbury Tales" than any other work. Like the "Tales", it features a number of narrators who tell stories along a journey they have undertaken (to flee from the Black Death). It ends with an apology by Boccaccio, much like Chaucer's Retraction to the "Tales". A quarter of the tales

neg: The Canterbury Tales prominently within "The Canterbury Tales". A liminal space, which can be both geographical as well as metaphorical or spiritual, is the transitional or transformational space between a “real” (secure, known, limited) world and an unknown or imaginary space of both risk and possibility. The notion of a pilgrimage is itself a liminal experience, because it centres on travel between destinations and because pilgrims undertake it hoping to become more holy in the process. Thus, the structure of "The Canterbury Tales" itself is liminal; it not only covers the distance between London and Canterbury, but the majority of the tales refer

neg: The Best of Caravan – Canterbury Tales I'd Do It All Over You" (1970), and a live version from "Caravan and the New Symphonia" (1974). The Best of Caravan – Canterbury Tales Canterbury Tales: The Best of Caravan is the 1976 compilation album released by Caravan. It was expanded, repackaged and released in 1994. Original release (1976) "The 1994 edition added tracks to make a 2 CD release.". Notes: "For Richard" is the shortened name of "Can't Be Long Now/Francoise/For Richard/Warlock". The track that appears on the 1976 release of "Canterbury Tales" was recorded at Fairfield Halls in 1974. The CD issue replaces this version with the

neg: The Best of Caravan – Canterbury Tales The Best of Caravan – Canterbury Tales Canterbury Tales: The Best of Caravan is the 1976 compilation album released by Caravan. It was expanded, repackaged and released in 1994. Original release (1976) "The 1994 edition added tracks to make a 2 CD release.". Notes: "For Richard" is the shortened name of "Can't Be Long Now/Francoise/For Richard/Warlock". The track that appears on the 1976 release of "Canterbury Tales" was recorded at Fairfield Halls in 1974. The CD issue replaces this version with the two other previously released versions: the original studio recording from "If I Could Do It All Over Again,

neg: The Canterbury Tales by John Wycliffe, is mentioned in the "Tales", which also mention a specific incident involving pardoners (sellers of indulgences, which were believed to relieve the temporal punishment due for sins that were already forgiven in the Sacrament of Confession) who nefariously claimed to be collecting for St. Mary Rouncesval hospital in England. "The Canterbury Tales" is among the first English literary works to mention paper, a relatively new invention that allowed dissemination of the written word never before seen in England. Political clashes, such as the 1381 Peasants' Revolt and clashes ending in the deposing of King Richard II, further

neg: Prologue and Tale of Beryn of Beryn. The Canterbury Interlude and the Tale of Beryn were published along with the other tales in John Urry’s 1721 edition of "The Canterbury Tales". Because it is the only manuscript containing these tales, it is difficult to judge what is scribal error and what is the original text. For this reason, modern scholars must analyse the text of The Canterbury Interlude and The Tale of Beryn against other tales copied by the same scribe in the same manuscript (specifically The Canon's Yeoman's Tale and The Summoner's Tale) to ascertain scribal anomalies. The Tale of Beryn is an adaptation

neg: The Canterbury Tales opened "The News from Lake Wobegon" portion of the first live TV broadcast of his "A Prairie Home Companion" radio show with a reading of the original Middle English text of the General Prologue. He commented, "Although those words were written more than 600 years ago, they still describe spring." Television adaptations include Alan Plater's 1975 re-telling of the stories in a series of plays for BBC2: "Trinity Tales". In 2003, BBC again featured modern re-tellings of selected tales. The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales () is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in

neg: The Canon's Yeoman's Tale 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

neg: The Canterbury Tales (film) the famed Fourth Doctor from "Doctor Who", in a small role as one of the husbands of the Wife of Bath. Set in England in the Middle Ages, stories of peasants, noblemen, clergy and demons are interwoven with brief scenes from Chaucer's home life and experiences implied to be the basis for the Canterbury Tales. Each episode does not take the form of a story told by different pilgrim, as is the case in Chaucer's stories, but simply appear in sequence, seemingly without regard for the way that the tales relate to one another in the original text. All the

neg: The Canterbury Tales (TV series) Gravesend is the setting in The Seacaptain’s Tale where old waterfront warehouses, the pier and Town Pier Square feature and the river scenes in The Man of Laws’ Tale were filmed on the River Medway and The Medway Estuary. From Chaucer's original collection, the producers chose six tales: On 29 March 2004 "The Wife of Bath" was nominated for three awards at the British Academy Television Awards, for Best Single Drama, Best Actress for Julie Walters and Best Costume Design. Walters went on to win the award. The Canterbury Tales (TV series) The Canterbury Tales is a series of six

neg: The Canterbury Tales Canterbury Tales" to a cross section of people, all snow-sports enthusiasts but from different social backgrounds, converging on a remote back-country ski cabin in British Columbia in the 2011 novel "The Canterbury Trail". "The Two Noble Kinsmen", by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, a retelling of "The Knight's Tale", was first performed in 1613 or 1614 and published in 1634. In 1961, Erik Chisholm completed his opera, "The Canterbury Tales". The opera is in three acts: The Wyf of Bath’s Tale, The Pardoner’s Tale and The Nun’s Priest’s Tale. Nevill Coghill's modern English version formed the basis of a musical

neg: Romantic Warriors III: Canterbury Tales Romantic Warriors III: Canterbury Tales Romantic Warriors III: Canterbury Tales (2015) is the third in a series of feature-length documentaries about Progressive rock written and directed by Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder. This one focuses on the music of the Canterbury scene. The DVD was completed with the aid of an Indiegogo campaign in 2014. Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder are co-founders of Zeitgeist Media LLC, a video production company based in Washington, D.C. Schmidt has produced several films, including a documentary on Albert Schweitzer, "Albert Schweitzer: Called to Africa" (2006), which won the 2008 Gabriel Award and

neg: Canterbury Tales (musical) 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

neg: Romantic Warriors III: Canterbury Tales Romantic Warriors III: Special Features DVD, was released May 2, 2016 with additional unused interview footage, unused performance footage by Soft Machine Legacy, Dave Sinclair, Forgas Band Phenomena and The Wrong Object, plus special concerts to celebrate the RWIII DVD release by The Muffins on May 16, 2015 and Glass on February 14, 2016. Romantic Warriors III: Canterbury Tales Romantic Warriors III: Canterbury Tales (2015) is the third in a series of feature-length documentaries about Progressive rock written and directed by Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder. This one focuses on the music of the Canterbury scene. The DVD was

neg: Canterbury Archbishop Thomas Becket at the cathedral in 1170, Canterbury became one of the most notable towns in Europe, as pilgrims from all parts of Christendom came to visit his shrine. This pilgrimage provided the framework for Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th-century collection of stories, "The Canterbury Tales". Canterbury Castle was captured by the French Prince Louis during his 1215 invasion of England, before the death of John caused his English supporters to desert his cause and support the young Henry III. Canterbury is associated with several saints from this period who lived in Canterbury: The Black Death hit Canterbury in 1348. At

neg: Ellesmere Chaucer "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

neg: The Squire (Canterbury Tales) 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

neg: The Squire (Canterbury Tales) 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 and The Yeoman). The Knight and the Squire are the pilgrims with the highest social status. However his tale, interrupted as it is, is paired with that of the Franklin. The Squire (along with The Shipman and The Summoner) is a candidate for the interrupter of

neg: The Canterbury Tales his Hugo Award winning novel "Hyperion" based on an extra-planetary group of pilgrims. Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins used "The Canterbury Tales" as a structure for his 2004 non-fiction book about evolution titled "". His animal pilgrims are on their way to find the common ancestor, each telling a tale about evolution. Henry Dudeney's book "The Canterbury Puzzles" contains a part reputedly lost from what modern readers know as Chaucer's tales. Historical-mystery novelist P.C. Doherty wrote a series of novels based on "The Canterbury Tales", making use of both the story frame and Chaucer's characters. Canadian author Angie Abdou translates "The

neg: The Canterbury Tales emphasised chivalry during his reign. Two tales, "Sir Topas" and "The Tale of Melibee", are told by Chaucer himself, who is travelling with the pilgrims in his own story. Both tales seem to focus on the ill-effects of chivalry—the first making fun of chivalric rules and the second warning against violence. The "Tales" constantly reflect the conflict between classes. For example, the division of the three estates: the characters are all divided into three distinct classes, the classes being "those who pray" (the clergy), "those who fight" (the nobility), and "those who work" (the commoners and peasantry). Most of the

neg: The Canterbury Tales that the greatest contribution of "The Canterbury Tales" to English literature was the popularisation of the English vernacular in mainstream literature, as opposed to French, Italian or Latin. English had, however, been used as a literary language centuries before Chaucer's time, and several of Chaucer's contemporaries—John Gower, William Langland, the Pearl Poet, and Julian of Norwich—also wrote major literary works in English. It is unclear to what extent Chaucer was seminal in this evolution of literary preference. While Chaucer clearly states the addressees of many of his poems, the intended audience of "The Canterbury Tales" is more difficult to determine.

neg: The Canterbury Tales the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return. After a long list of works written earlier in his career, including "Troilus and Criseyde", "House of Fame", and "Parliament of Fowls", "The Canterbury Tales" is near-unanimously seen as Chaucer's "magnum opus". He uses the tales and descriptions of its characters to paint an ironic and critical portrait of English society at the time, and particularly of the Church. Chaucer's use of such a wide range of classes and types of people was

neg: The Canterbury Tales Introducing a competition among the tales encourages the reader to compare the tales in all their variety, and allows Chaucer to showcase the breadth of his skill in different genres and literary forms. While the structure of the "Tales" is largely linear, with one story following another, it is also much more than that. In the "General Prologue", Chaucer describes not the tales to be told, but the people who will tell them, making it clear that structure will depend on the characters rather than a general theme or moral. This idea is reinforced when the Miller interrupts to tell

neg: The Canterbury Tales in the behaviour of the clergy, false church relics or abuse of indulgences. Several characters in the "Tales" are religious figures, and the very setting of the pilgrimage to Canterbury is religious (although the prologue comments ironically on its merely seasonal attractions), making religion a significant theme of the work. Two characters, the Pardoner and the Summoner, whose roles apply the Church's secular power, are both portrayed as deeply corrupt, greedy, and abusive. Pardoners in Chaucer's day were those people from whom one bought Church "indulgences" for forgiveness of sins, who were guilty of abusing their office for their own

neg: The Canterbury Tales Folger Shakespeare Library. In 2004, Linne Mooney claimed that she was able to identify the scrivener who worked for Chaucer as an Adam Pinkhurst. Mooney, then a professor at the University of Maine and a visiting fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, said she could match Pinkhurst's signature, on an oath he signed, to his handwriting on a copy of "The Canterbury Tales" that might have been transcribed from Chaucer's working copy. That identification has been questioned and doubted by others and is being debated. In the absence of consensus as to whether or not a complete version of the

neg: The Canterbury Tales the vibrant history of England. Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1972 film "The Canterbury Tales" features several of the tales, some of which keep close to the original tale and some of which are embellished. The "Cook's Tale", for instance, which is incomplete in the original version, is expanded into a full story, and the "Friar's Tale" extends the scene in which the Summoner is dragged down to hell. The film includes these two tales as well as the "Miller's Tale", the "Summoner's Tale", the "Wife of Bath's Tale", and the "Merchant's Tale". On 26 April 1986, American radio personality Garrison Keillor

neg: General Prologue 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

neg: The Canterbury Tales "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

neg: Fairy Tales (TV series) Fairy Tales (TV series) Fairy Tales is a British television drama anthology series produced by Hat Trick Productions for BBC Northern Ireland and broadcast on BBC One. Traditional fairy tales are adapted into modern settings, after the model of "ShakespeaRe-Told" and "The Canterbury Tales". The first episode was broadcast on 10 January 2008, with others following at weekly intervals. Based on the fairytale "Rapunzel", Billy Jane Brooke (Charity Wakefield) is a successful tennis player whose nickname is "Rapunzel" because of her long hair. Billy Jane has an overprotective mother-manager (Geraldine James) who surrounds Billy Jane with female bodyguards and prevents

neg: The Canterbury Tales 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

neg: The Canterbury Tales 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

neg: The Prioress's Tale New Laws in the "Prioress' Tale" back to a tension between letter and spirit internal to Paul's discourse itself. Fradenburg gestures at a larger project of turning "patristic exegesis" against itself to read the contradictions revealed by the theological subtext of the tale. Fradenburg notes that the substance of the "Prioress' Tale" can be linked to the "'child-host' miracle of the later Middle Ages" which involved the substitution of the "actual body of the Christ Child" for the Eucharist. Such miraculous tales appear designed to reaffirm faith in the miraculous efficacy of transubstantiation in the face of the pressure of

neg: Sir Thopas 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

neg: The Canterbury Tales (film) this possession is located beneath his buttocks. When the friar reaches down to retrieve the item, the bedridden man farts into his hands. That night, an angel visits the friar and brings him to hell, where Satan expels hundreds of corrupt friars from his rectum. The film ends with the pilgrims arriving at the Canterbury Cathedral, and Chaucer at home writing the words "Qui finiscono i racconti di Canterbury, narrati solo per il piacere di raccontarli. Amen," meaning "Here ends the Canterbury Tales, told only for the pleasure of telling them. Amen:" a phrase that appears nowhere in the original

neg: The Canterbury Tales to places entirely outside the geography of the pilgrimage. Jean Jost summarises the function of liminality in "The Canterbury Tales", Liminality is also evident in the individual tales. An obvious instance of this is the Friar’s Tale in which the yeoman devil is a liminal figure because of his transitory nature and function; it is his purpose to issue souls from their current existence to hell, an entirely different one. The Franklin’s Tale is a Breton Lai tale, which takes the tale into a liminal space by invoking not only the interaction of the supernatural and the mortal, but also

neg: English words first attested in Chaucer the "root" word definition. Some of these words are now dated or obsolete. These manuscript words first found written in Chaucer's work, from "The Canterbury Tales" and other of his publications as shown below, were published in the 14th century. "The Canterbury Tales" is a collection of tales written sometime after 1373, with 'sondry folk' that resemble Boccaccio's stories of "The Decameron" of fleeing nobles. The "General Prologue" introduces the tellers of the tales, with much wry and subtle social commentary. " acate, affile, alight, ambler, army, arrive, bagpipe, begster, borax, bourdon, bracer, bream, cape, ceruse, chape, clasp, cordial, dagger,

neg: The Canterbury Tales tales are interlinked by common themes, and some "quit" (reply to or retaliate against) other tales. Convention is followed when the Knight begins the game with a tale, as he represents the highest social class in the group. But when he is followed by the Miller, who represents a lower class, it sets the stage for the "Tales" to reflect both a respect for and a disregard for upper class rules. Helen Cooper, as well as Mikhail Bakhtin and Derek Brewer, call this opposition "the ordered and the grotesque, Lent and Carnival, officially approved culture and its riotous, and high-spirited

neg: The Miller's Tale 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

neg: Golden Cockerel Press for others. The size of a run was normally between 250 and 750, and the books were mostly bound in leather by bookbinders Sangorski & Sutcliffe. The major titles were the four volume "Canterbury Tales" (1929 to 1931) and the "Four Gospels" (1931), both illustrated by Gill. Gibbings printed 15 copies of the "Canterbury Tales" on vellum, and 12 copies of the "Four Gospels". Printing the "Canterbury Tales" dominated work at the press for two and a half years, and relatively few other books were printed during that period. However, the book was a considerable critical and financial success and

neg: Ellesmere Chaucer 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

neg: Patience Agbabi She has cited among her influences Janis Joplin, Carol Ann Duffy, Chaucer, and various aspects of contemporary music and culture. Her childhood love of cake is apparent in her poem "Eat Me". Her latest book, "Telling Tales", was published by Canongate in 2014. It revisits Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" and mines the Middle-English masterwork to offer a 21st-century take on the characters, its poetry and its performance elements. The book met with praise from poets who include Simon Armitage, who described it as "the liveliest versions of Chaucer you're likely to read." Agbabi continues to tour "Telling Tales" as

neg: The Canterbury Tales 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

neg: Baba Brinkman better for the environment than back-to-the-land movements. 2004: The Rap Canterbury Tales 2008: The Rebel Cell (co-written with Dizraeli) 2009: The Rap Guide to Evolution 2010: Rapconteur 2010: The Rap Guide to Human Nature 2011: The Canterbury Tales Remixed 2012: Ingenious Nature 2014: The Rap Guide to Religion 2015: The Rap Guide to Climate Chaos 2004: Swordplay 2004: The Rap Canterbury Tales 2005: Pandemonium 2006: Lit-Hop 2008: Mine the Gap (Mud Sun) 2008: The Rebel Cell (Mud Sun) 2009: The Rap Guide to Evolution 2009: Apocalyptic Utopian Dreams in the Western Wilderness 2010: Rapconteur 2010: The Rap Guide to Human

neg: Order of The Canterbury Tales 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

neg: The Canterbury Tales of all time and the first to show what the language was truly capable of poetically. This sentiment was universally agreed upon by later critics into the mid-15th century. Glosses included in "The Canterbury Tales" manuscripts of the time praised him highly for his skill with "sentence" and rhetoric, the two pillars by which medieval critics judged poetry. The most respected of the tales was at this time the Knight's, as it was full of both. The incompleteness of the "Tales" led several medieval authors to write additions and supplements to the tales to make them more complete. Some of

neg: The Canterbury Tales ideas. "The Tale of Gamelyn" was included in an early manuscript version of the tales, Harley 7334, which is 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 rewrite the story as a tale for the Yeoman. Dates for its authorship vary from 1340 to 1370. Many literary works (both fiction and non-fiction alike) have used a similar frame narrative to "The Canterbury Tales" as an homage. Science-fiction writer Dan Simmons wrote

neg: The Canterbury Tales 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".

neg: The Canterbury Tales 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

neg: Sempringham Priory received benediction, and as the master, William of Prestwold, refused to listen to the prioress, they petitioned Bishop John Bokyngham, who came to Sempringham, to right them. The number of nuns had then fallen to 67. In 1382, Richard II granted a licence for the master and priors of the order to seize and detain all vagabond canons and lay brothers and, in 1383 and 1390, mandates were issued to the sheriffs and others to arrest an apostate canon. In 1397, Boniface IX sent a mandate to the archbishops of Canterbury and York and the bishop of Ely, to investigate

neg: Flixton Priory Virly, who was prioress of Flixton at the Visitation of Bishop James Goldwell in June 1493. Elizabeth might also be the prioress Isabella (these names being sometimes interchanged at that period) recorded in 1503 who is also rumoured to occur in 1483. Bishop Goldwell found a community of only six nuns, including the prioress and Margaret Causton, the sub-prioress, and that they were not attending mass in the conventual church but in Flixton parish church because their priest had broken his arm and was unable to celebrate. No reforms were needed. In August 1514 Bishop Nykke found the nuns of

neg: The Canterbury Tales in "The Canterbury Tales" parallel a tale in the "Decameron", although most of them have closer parallels in other stories. Some scholars thus find it unlikely that Chaucer had a copy of the work on hand, surmising instead that he may have merely read the "Decameron" at some point. Each of the tales has its own set of sources that have been suggested by scholars, but a few sources are used frequently over several tales. They include poetry by Ovid, the Bible in one of the many vulgate versions in which it was available at the time (the exact one

neg: Canterbury Tales (musical) 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

neg: Reeve (England) to stay in office more or less permanently. By the 14th century the reeve was often a permanent officer of the manor. With the subsequent decline of the feudal system, and the subversion of its courts by the introduction of Justices of the Peace ("magistrates"), this use of "reeve" fell out of practice. There is an exceptional literary portrait of a reeve in the second half of the 14th century. The reeve is one of the pilgrims who are making their way to Canterbury in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and the Prologue paints a vivid picture of this man, who had

neg: Harley MS 7334 Harley MS 7334 Harley MS. 7334, sometimes known as the Harley Manuscript, is a mediaeval manuscript of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" held in the Harleian Collection of the British Library. It was formerly used as a base text for modern editions of the "Tales", following the examples of Thomas Wright, who used it as the basis for his 1847 edition, and W. W. Skeat, who felt it gave authoritative variant readings. The Harley MS. was likely produced in a London workshop within a decade of Chaucer's death, and is therefore one of the earliest extant manuscripts. It has some decoration in

neg: Romantic Warriors III: Canterbury Tales Wilde Flowers. Bands influenced by the original Canterbury scene began popping up around 1970 all over the world, including Moving Gelatine Plates (France) and Supersister (Netherlands). Their history is described by their main composers, with performance footage and images of their album covers. Next to be featured is Forgas Band Phenomena which came a little later but definitely is Canterbury-influenced. Dirk Mont Campbell introduces the bands Uriel, Arzachel and Egg, with passing reference to Spirogyra (which had Canterbury roots). Soon all these bands would be lumped into the Canterbury scene as the players mixed with musicians from Canterbury to form

neg: Margaret Frazer here, the "everyday" is of the 15th century, carefully researched. Some of the later novels are primarily historical novels, in which Frevisse serves as an observer of the well-documented events and characters which brought on the Wars of the Roses, though there is always a murder for her to solve. Dame Frevisse is related to Geoffrey Chaucer, author of the "Canterbury Tales", by her aunt's marriage to Thomas Chaucer. Titles of the Frevisse novels follow the format of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, e.g., "The Novice's Tale," "The Prioress's Tale." There is no relation between Frazer’s title characters and Chaucer’s, even when

neg: Harley MS 7334 following John Manly and Edith Rickert's notation. A facsimile edition of the manuscript has been published. Harley MS 7334 Harley MS. 7334, sometimes known as the Harley Manuscript, is a mediaeval manuscript of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" held in the Harleian Collection of the British Library. It was formerly used as a base text for modern editions of the "Tales", following the examples of Thomas Wright, who used it as the basis for his 1847 edition, and W. W. Skeat, who felt it gave authoritative variant readings. The Harley MS. was likely produced in a London workshop within a decade of

neg: General Prologue 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

neg: The Canterbury Tales 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

neg: A Knight's Tale 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

neg: The Canterbury Tales artistic terms, which can be seen in the great number of forgeries and mistaken attributions (such as "The Floure and the Leafe", which was translated by John Dryden), modern English spelling and orthography owe much more to the innovations made by the Court of Chancery in the decades during and after his lifetime. While Chaucer clearly states the addressees of many of his poems (the "Book of the Duchess" is believed to have been written for John of Gaunt on the occasion of his wife's death in 1368), the intended audience of "The Canterbury Tales" is more difficult to determine.

neg: Confessio Amantis (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

neg: The Canon's Yeoman's Tale 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

neg: The Legend of Good Women The Legend of Good Women The Legend of Good Women is a poem in the form of a dream vision by Geoffrey Chaucer. The poem is the third longest of Chaucer's works, after "The Canterbury Tales" and "Troilus and Criseyde", and is possibly the first significant work in English to use the iambic pentameter or decasyllabic couplets which he later used throughout "The Canterbury Tales". This form of the heroic couplet would become a significant part of English literature no doubt inspired by Chaucer. The prologue describes how Chaucer is reprimanded by the god of love and his queen, Alceste,

neg: The Shipman's Tale The Shipman's Tale The Shipman's Tale (also called The Sailor's Tale) is one of "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer. It is in the form of a fabliau and tells the story of a miserly merchant, his avaricious wife and her lover, a wily monk. Although similar stories can be found in Boccaccio's "Decameron", a frequent source for Chaucer's tales, the story is a retelling of a common folk tale: "the lover's gift regained". The tale tells of a merchant whose wife enjoys revelry and socialising, on which she spends much. A young monk, who is very close friends with

neg: Romantic Warriors III: Canterbury Tales the 2009 Telly Award. Previous Progressive rock documentary films in the series include (2010) and (2012). Romantic Warriors III: Canterbury Tales begins with The Wilde Flowers, the archetypal Canterbury scene band. Rare period performance footage, still photos, and recordings are interspersed with contemporary interviews with almost all of the surviving musicians from this era. From The Wilde Flowers the story moves to Soft Machine which initially comprised four ex-members of The Wilde Flowers, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Mike Ratledge and Daevid Allen. When Australian-born Allen was refused re-entry into the United Kingdom in 1967 after a gig in Saint-Tropez on

neg: The Monk's Tale 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

neg: Sir Thopas who first suggested (at least in print) that Chaucer was not serious, that the whole tale is a parody and that the character of Geoffrey Chaucer must not be confused with Geoffrey Chaucer the author. 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

neg: Siege of Thebes (poem) popularity, attested to by its 31 surviving manuscripts. The poem is, in large part, a response to Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Lydgate's poem borrows The Canterbury Tales pilgrimage-based framing device and is written as an additional tale in the cycle. However, unlike Chaucer, Lydgate establishes himself as the narrator of the work, and recounts the Siege of Thebes. Lydgate's Siege of Thebes follows and expands upon the Theban Cycle, but makes significant additions to the source materials. Although literary critics generally believed that the work was a poor imitation of Chaucer's work rather than a work warranting criticism in

neg: Monographic series discipline, focus, approach, type of work, or geographic location. Examples of such series include "Antwerp Working Papers in Linguistics"; "Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile" (Rosenkilde & Bagger, Copenhagen); Garland reference library; "Canterbury Tales Project" (see "The Canterbury Tales"); Early English Text Society. The "Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology" (a series of 19th-century editions of theological works by Church of England writers, devoted to significant Anglo-Catholic figures, published by John Henry Parker) is an example of a common usage in naming monographic series; another example is the John Harvard Library which consists of notable works relating to the United States. The Loeb

neg: Bernard Cribbins mascot for the then Post Office. He also appeared reduced to OO gauge scale in adverts for Hornby model trains. In 1978 he was one of two voiceovers in the electricity safety public information film Play Safe. The other voiceover was Brian Wilde; Wilde voiced the owl and Cribbins voiced the robin. Cribbins is also the voice of Harry Bailey, the landlord of the Tabard Inn described by Geoffrey Chaucer in "The Canterbury Tales", at the Canterbury Tales Attraction in Kent, which he recorded in 1987. Cribbins also had a short stint doing voiceovers for the Mark and Lard Show

neg: The Canterbury Tales "Tales" exists, there is also no general agreement regarding the order in which Chaucer intended the stories to be placed. Textual and manuscript clues have been adduced to support the two most popular modern methods of ordering the tales. Some scholarly editions divide the "Tales" into ten "Fragments". The tales that make up a Fragment are closely related and contain internal indications of their order of presentation, usually with one character speaking to and then stepping aside for another character. However, between Fragments, the connection is less obvious. Consequently, there are several possible orders; the one most frequently seen in

neg: The Canterbury Tales 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

neg: The Parson's Tale direct source has been lost. The Parson is considered by some to be the only good member of the clergy in "The Canterbury Tales", while others have detected ambiguities and possible hints of Lollardy in the portrait. Chaucer, in the "General Prologue" calls him "a povre Persoun of a Toun". His depiction of a man who practices what he preaches seems to be positive: if also rather forbidding; for instance, Chaucer's parson is no respecter of persons in demanding ultimate adherence to moral principles: None of the explicit criticism of clergy that marks many of the other tales and character

neg: Fairy Tales (TV series) any fantasy elements, as it is set in an alternate universe where humans and trolls co-exist. Fairy Tales (TV series) Fairy Tales is a British television drama anthology series produced by Hat Trick Productions for BBC Northern Ireland and broadcast on BBC One. Traditional fairy tales are adapted into modern settings, after the model of "ShakespeaRe-Told" and "The Canterbury Tales". The first episode was broadcast on 10 January 2008, with others following at weekly intervals. Based on the fairytale "Rapunzel", Billy Jane Brooke (Charity Wakefield) is a successful tennis player whose nickname is "Rapunzel" because of her long hair. Billy