ChaucerChaucerSlide 3Slide 4Slide 5Slide 6Slide 7Slide 8Slide 9Slide 10Slide 11Slide 12Slide 13Canterbury Tales General Prologue: IntroductionSlide 15Slide 16Slide 17Canterbury Tales General Prologue: The KnightSlide 19Slide 20Slide 21Canterbury Tales General Prologue: The PrioressSlide 23Slide 24Slide 25Canterbury Tales General Prologue: The MonkSlide 27Slide 28Slide 29Canterbury Tales General Prologue: FriarSlide 31Slide 32Slide 33Slide 34Canterbury Tales General Prologue: The ClerkSlide 36Canterbury Tales General Prologue: The Wife of BathSlide 38Slide 39Slide 40Slide 41ChaucerText and ContextsChaucer Canterbury Tales Characters: – Narrator (“Chaucer”)– Host (Harry Bailey)– Knight• Squire• Yeoman– Prioress• Second Nun• Three Priests– Monk– Friar– Merchant– Clerk (student)– Man of Law– Franklin– Guildsmen– Cook– Shipman– Physician– Wife of Bath– Parson– Plowman– Manciple– Reeve– Miller– Summoner– PardonerChaucer Canterbury Tales Characters: – Narrator (“Chaucer”)– Host (Harry Bailey)– Knight• Squire• Yeoman– Prioress• Second Nun• Three Priests– Monk– Friar– Merchant– Clerk (student)– Man of Law– Franklin– Guildsmen– Cook– Shipman– Physician– Wife of Bath– Parson– Plowman– Manciple– Reeve– Miller– Summoner– PardonerChaucer Canterbury Tales Characters: – Narrator (“Chaucer”)– Host (Harry Bailey)– Knight• Squire• Yeoman– Prioress• Second Nun• Three Priests– Monk– Friar– Merchant– Clerk (student)– Man of Law– Franklin– Guildsmen– Cook– Shipman– Physician– Wife of Bath– Parson– Plowman– Manciple– Reeve– Miller– Summoner– PardonerChaucer Canterbury Tales Characters: – Narrator (“Chaucer”)– Host (Harry Bailey)– Knight• Squire• Yeoman– Prioress• Second Nun• Three Priests– Monk– Friar– Merchant– Clerk (student)– Man of Law– Franklin– Guildsmen– Cook– Shipman– Physician– Wife of Bath– Parson– Plowman– Manciple– Reeve– Miller– Summoner– PardonerChaucer Canterbury Tales Characters: – Narrator (“Chaucer”)– Host (Harry Bailey)– Knight• Squire• Yeoman– Prioress• Second Nun• Three Priests– Monk– Friar– Merchant– Clerk (student)– Man of Law– Franklin– Guildsmen– Cook– Shipman– Physician– Wife of Bath– Parson– Plowman– Manciple– Reeve– Miller– Summoner– PardonerChaucer Canterbury Tales Characters: – Narrator (“Chaucer”)– Host (Harry Bailey)– Knight• Squire• Yeoman– Prioress• Second Nun• Three Priests– Monk– Friar– Merchant– Clerk (student)– Man of Law– Franklin– Guildsmen– Cook– Shipman– Physician– Wife of Bath– Parson– Plowman– Manciple– Reeve– Miller– Summoner– PardonerChaucer Canterbury Tales Characters: – Narrator (“Chaucer”)– Host (Harry Bailey)– Knight• Squire• Yeoman– Prioress• Second Nun• Three Priests– Monk– Friar– Merchant– Clerk (student)– Man of Law– Franklin– Guildsmen– Cook– Shipman– Physician– Wife of Bath– Parson– Plowman– Manciple– Reeve– Miller– Summoner– PardonerChaucer Canterbury Tales Characters: – Narrator (“Chaucer”)– Host (Harry Bailey)– Knight• Squire• Yeoman– Prioress• Second Nun• Three Priests– Monk– Friar– Merchant– Clerk (student)– Man of Law– Franklin– Guildsmen– Cook– Shipman– Physician– Wife of Bath– Parson– Plowman– Manciple– Reeve– Miller– Summoner– PardonerChaucer Canterbury Tales Characters: – Narrator (“Chaucer”)– Host (Harry Bailey)– Knight• Squire• Yeoman– Prioress• Second Nun• Three Priests– Monk– Friar– Merchant– Clerk (student)– Man of Law– Franklin– Guildsmen– Cook– Shipman– Physician– Wife of Bath– Parson– Plowman– Manciple– Reeve– Miller– Summoner– PardonerChaucer Canterbury Tales Characters: – Narrator (“Chaucer”)– Host (Harry Bailey)– Knight• Squire• Yeoman– Prioress• Second Nun• Three Priests– Monk– Friar– Merchant– Clerk (student)– Man of Law– Franklin– Guildsmen– Cook– Shipman– Physician– Wife of Bath– Parson– Plowman– Manciple– Reeve– Miller– Summoner– PardonerChaucer Canterbury Tales Characters: – Narrator (“Chaucer”)– Host (Harry Bailey)– Knight• Squire• Yeoman– Prioress• Second Nun• Three Priests– Monk– Friar– Merchant– Clerk (student)– Man of Law– Franklin– Guildsmen– Cook– Shipman– Physician– Wife of Bath– Parson– Plowman– Manciple– Reeve– Miller– Summoner– PardonerChaucer Canterbury Tales Clerical Characters: – Narrator (“Chaucer”)– Host (Harry Bailey)– Knight• Squire• Yeoman– Prioress• Second Nun• Three Priests– Monk– Friar– Merchant– Clerk (student)– Man of Law– Franklin– Guildsmen– Cook– Shipman– Physician– Wife of Bath– Parson– Plowman– Manciple– Reeve– Miller– Summoner– PardonerCanterbury TalesGeneral Prologue: IntroductionWhan that Aprill, with his shoures sooteThe droghte of March hath perced to the rooteAnd bathed every veyne in swich licourOf which vertu engendred is the flour;5 Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breethInspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonneHath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,And smale foweles maken melodye,10 That slepen al the nyght with open eye– (So priketh hem Nature in hir corages); Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimagesAnd palmeres for to seken straunge strondesTo ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;Canterbury TalesGeneral Prologue: Introduction10 That slepen al the nyght with open eye– (So priketh hem Nature in hir corages); Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimagesAnd palmeres for to seken straunge strondesTo ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;15 And specially from every shires ende20Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,Redy The hooly blisful martir for to sekeThat hem hath holpen, whan that they were seeke.Bifil that in that seson, on a day,In