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The Canterbury Tales: Fifteen Tales and the General Prologue

Contents

  • Preface
  • Chaucer’s Language
  • Selections from The Canterbury Tales
    • The General Prologue
    • The Knight’s Tale
    • The Miller’s Prologue and Tale
    • The Reeve’s Prologue and Tale
    • The Cook’s Prologue and Tale
    • The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
    • The Friar’s Prologue and Tale
    • The Summoner’s Prologue and Tale
    • The Clerk’s Prologue and Tale
    • The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale
    • The Franklin’s Prologue and Tale
    • The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale
    • The Prioress’s Prologue and Tale
    • The Prologue and Tale of Sir Thopas
    • From The Prologue and Tale of Melibee
    • The Nun’s Priest’s Prologue and Tale
    • The Manciple’s Prologue and Tale
    • From The Parson’s Prologue and Tale
    • Chaucer’s Retraction—elevated from "Sources and Backgrounds"
  • Sources and Backgrounds
  • THE GENERAL PROLOGUE
    • Giovanni Boccaccio, From the Decameron, First Day, Introduction
    • Giovanni Boccaccio, From the Decameron, Tenth Day, Conclusion
    • St. Augustine, [Human Life as a Pilgrimage]
    • Sir William Thorpe, [On Pilgrimage]
    • Thomas Wimbledon, [On the Estates]
    • William Langland, [On Monks]
    • John Gower, [On Monks]
    • Wycliffite Estates Criticism
  • THE MILLER’S PROLOGUE AND TALE
    • The Three Guests of Heile of Bersele
  • THE REEVE’S PROLOGUE AND TALE
    • The Miller and the Two Clerics
  • THE WIFE OF BATH’S PROLOGUE AND TALE
    • Jean de Meun, From The Romance of the Rose
    • Theophrastus, From The Golden Book on Marriage
    • St. Jerome, From Against Jovinian
    • Walter Map, From The Letter of Valerius to Ruffinus, against Marriage
    • From the Gospel According to St. John
    • From St. Paul to the Corinthians 1
    • From St. Paul to the Ephesians
    • From St. Paul to Timothy 1
    • From St. Paul to Timothy 2
    • John Gower, The Tale of Florent
  • THE FRIAR’S PROLOGUE AND TALE
    • Robert Rypon, A Greedy Bailiff
  • THE CLERK’S PROLOGUE AND TALE
    • Giovanni Boccaccio, From the Decameron, Tenth Day, Tenth Tale
    • Francis Petrarch, The Story of Griselda
    • Francis Petrarch, [Two Letters to Boccaccio]
    • From Le Ménagierde Paris
  • THE MERCHANT’S PROLOGUE AND TALE
    • The Woman and the Pear-Tree
  • THE FRANKLIN’S PROLOGUE AND TALE
    • Giovanni Boccaccio, From the Decameron, Tenth Day, Fifth Tale
    • Bartholomaeus Anglicus, [On Love and Marriage]
  • THE PARDONER’S PROLOGUE AND TALE
    • Jean de Meun, From The Romance of the Rose
    • The Hermit, Death, and the Robbers
    • Thomas of Cantimpré, From Liber de Apibus
  • THE PRIORESS’S PROLOGUE AND TALE
    • The Story of the Alma Redeptoris Mater
    • A Miracle of Our Lady
    • Alma Redemptoris Mater
    • Pope Gregory X, [On Christian Mistreatment of Jews]
  • THE PROLOGUE AND TALE OF SIR THOPAS
    • From Guy of Warwick
  • THE NUN’S PRIEST’S PROLOGUE AND TALE
    • William Caxton, From Aesop’s Fables
    • Marie de France, The Cock and the Fox
    • From the Roman de Renart, Branch 2
    • Macrobius, [On Dreams]
    • Geoffrey of Vinsauf, [Lament on the Death of Richard I]
    • Bartholomaeus Anglicus, [On the Cock]
  • THE MANCIPLE’S PROLOGUE AND TALE
    • Ovid, [The Story of Phoebus and Coronis]
    • John Gower, The Tale of Phoebus and Cornide
  • Criticism
    • F.R.H. Du Boulay, The Historical Chaucer
    • Arthur W. Hoffman, Chaucer’s Prologue to Pilgrimage: The Two Voices
    • E. Talbot Donaldson, Chaucer the Pilgrim
    • Barbara Nolan, "A Poet Ther Was": Chaucer’s Voices in the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
    • George Lyman Kittredge, [The Dramatic Principle of the Canterbury Tales]
    • George Lyman Kittredge, [The Marriage Group]
    • Lee Patterson, From The Parson’s Tale and the Quitting of the Canterbury Tales]
    • Paul Strohm, From Social Chaucer: A Mixed Commonwealth of Style
    • Carolyn Dinshaw, Eunuch Hermeneutics
  • Geoffrey Chaucer: A Chronology
  • Selected Bibliography

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