the canterbury tales

     

Russell, a fox, appears in "The Nun's Priest's Tale" of this Chaucer work

Trivia about the canterbury tales

  • Of the 31 pilgrims in this Chaucer work, only 23 tell their stories
  • The knight is the first character to tell his story in this Chaucer classic
  • It consists of a story-telling contest to pass the time on a trip to the shrine of St. Thomas A Becket
  • Entertainment, 1477:William Caxton prints this Chaucer collection
  • Literary classics Pasolini adapted for the screen include this one, as "I Racconti di Canterbury"
  • "The Parson's Tale", which deals at length with the 7 deadly sins, concludes this 14th century work
  • The general prologue to this monumental work describes the meeting of 30 pilgrims at the Tabard Inn
  • In this work, one of the big talkers on their way to Becket's tomb is a prioress, Madame Eglentyn
  • The tellers in this classic collection include the Knight & the Wife of Bath
  • "Tales Of A Wayside Inn" was modeled in part on this Chaucer work
  • "The Miller's Tale" is one of the bawdiest stories in this collection of Chaucer "Tales"
  • The general prologue of this masterpiece is heard here
  • "The Man of Law's Tale" in this Chaucer work tells the story of Constance, an emperor's daughter
  • "The Miller's Tale" is one of the naughtiest of these famous Chaucer stories
  • The Knight's Tale, the Friar's Tale, & the Nun's Priest's Tale are part of this larger group
  • "Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne, entuned in hir nose ful semely" in the prologue to this masterpiece
  • Late 14th century:"A Miller, a Reeve & a Nun Walk into a Bar"
  • The pilgrims in this poetic work include a knight, a cook, a squire, a miller & a merchant
  • The Parson & the Reeve are among the tale-tellers in this 14th century collection
  • English 115b takes us to the 1390s in a study of this "most famous work of English literature before Shakespeare"
  • This work written around 1387 begins, "Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote"
  • It's the classic work in which you'll find "The Nun's Priest's Tale"

Tweets about the canterbury tales

  • The Canterbury tales are also not my friend
  • Instead I'll be here, reading The Canterbury Tales, eating my ice cream...maybe crying, we'll see
  • @cisco_dank the canterbury tales .. Its like 500 pages and I have to read half the book by friday and im on page 33 👌
  • RT @ShawnKManKeeney: The Canterbury Tales? More like The I Can't-erbury Tales. 😩😭 #Chaucer #MiddleEnglish…
  • Does anybody have the Canterbury tales questions and character chart?!?!
  • Who wants to read The Canterbury Tales with me
  • The Canterbury tales will be the reason i drop out of high school, and end up dealing crack
  • the Canterbury tales makes me want to kms
  • I just cannot read the Canterbury tales, it's just too boring for me.
  • Giirrrrll you are harder to read than the original version of the Canterbury Tales
  • I have to go read the Canterbury tales now bye
  • In sister act was Whoopi Goldberg the ideal nun? Im trying to tie this to the Canterbury Tales
  • I bought a really pretty copy of the Canterbury Tales and I really want to show it to mr Tustin
  • RT @aiminoacid: A cute hoco proposal that would win my heart is if he can recite the Canterbury tales prologue in Middle English 😏😏😏
  • I finally know the first 6 lines of the Canterbury tales!! 😅
  • And someone called the friar (from the prologue of the Canterbury tales) a "holy pimp"… IN AN ESSAY ON THE TEST!!!
  • A cute hoco proposal that would win my heart is if he can recite the Canterbury tales prologue in Middle English 😏😏😏
  • #audiobook #itunes The Canterbury Tales (Unabridged Selections) - Geoffrey Chaucer
  • I can now recite the 1st 12 lines of the Canterbury Tales... #girlfriendmaterial
  • The miller telling his tale in the canterbury tales completely wasted #TFM
  • @ToriNickole I don't think it's the quarter test I think it's the Canterbury tales test
  • @jenasharmony ((I had a test on the Canterbury tales today...I didn't know I had a test))
  • The Canterbury Tales: A New Unabridged Translation By Burton Raffel (Unabri | | Drama & Poetry #audiobook #Drama #Po…
  • RT @SignumDei: There's never a new fashion but it's old. - The Canterbury Tales. - Chaucer
  • @katelittle Get a copy of the Canterbury Tales or the Peterborough Chronicle, try reading it next time you're on a long journey. Confusing.
  • RT @MercuryNii: @faflin remember that similarity of the Deathly Hallows to a story from the Canterbury Tales I told u about ? Check my LRT
  • @faflin remember that similarity of the Deathly Hallows to a story from the Canterbury Tales I told u about ? Check my LRT
  • @sarasanteria @brycefrisher this is in the canterbury tales
  • The Canterbury Tales is rapidly turning into a medieval cover of "Stand by Your Man".
  • Read the Canterbury tales or eat seaweed and watch vine. Hmm
  • “@ShawnKManKeeney: The Canterbury Tales? More like The I Can't-erbury Tales. 😩😭 #Chaucer #MiddleEnglish…"
  • The Canterbury Tales? More like The I Can't-erbury Tales. 😩😭 #Chaucer #MiddleEnglish…
  • Nugas prose itu... Selalu bisa di update. – Reading The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer — https://t.co/NqsTK9M0Gz
  • Just two weeks till our Half Term workshops. You can perform your own story, watch The Canterbury Tales and make...
  • Chaucer used The Canterbury Tales to condemn, warn, and inform the people of their corrupted ways of living. #AP3ng
  • Listening to an auto-tune hip hop rendition of the Canterbury Tales in this morning's lecture was an interesting start to the week
  • I probably should've attempted to look at the Canterbury tales but like who does that
  • Children’s books exhibited in Beinecke: Between the Gutenberg Bible and the Canterbury Tales, the Beinecke Rar...
  • Children’s books exhibited in Beinecke: Between the Gutenberg Bible and the Canterbury Tales, the Beinecke Rare…
  • On page 205 of 436 of The Canterbury Tales, by Peter Ackroyd
  • @lindserrrrs do we have a test on the pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales tomorrow in English?
  • I'm on my last few dialectical journals, which may sound inspiring, but they're over the Canterbury Tales. There goes the inspiration, huh?
  • Someone give me a theme in the Canterbury tales. Please.
  • RT @eemma_s: when you remember that you never read any of the canterbury tales
  • RT @Sydran97: I haven't even started working on my pilgrim presentation yet I already hate the Canterbury Tales more than anything else on …
  • FUCK the canterbury tales
  • The Canterbury Tales
  • RT @jacksoz1017: has anyone done the english review of the Canterbury Tales
  • I haven't even started working on my pilgrim presentation yet I already hate the Canterbury Tales more than anything else on earth.