Chaucer's Monk's Tale and Nun's Priest's Tale

Chaucer's Monk's Tale and Nun's Priest's Tale
Author: Peter Goodall
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2009-02-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1442691905

Of all the stories that comprise The Canterbury Tales, certain ones have attracted more attention than others in terms of literary scholarship and canonization. The Monk's Tale, for instance, was popular in the decades after Chaucer's death, but has since suffered critical neglect, particularly in the twentieth century. The opposite has occurred with the Nun's Priest's Tale, which has long been one of the most popular and widely discussed of the tales, cited by some critics as the most essentially 'Chaucerian' of them all. This annotated bibliography is a record of all editions, translations, and scholarship written on The Monk's Tale and the Nun's Priest's Tale in the twentieth century with a view to revisiting the former and creating a comprehensive scholarly view of the latter. A detailed introduction summarizes all extant writings on the two tales and their relationship to each other, giving a sense of the complexity of Chaucer's seminal work and the unique function of its component stories. By dealing with these two tales in particular, this bibliography suggests the complicated critical reception and history of The Canterbury Tales.

The Nun's Priest's Tale

The Nun's Priest's Tale
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1996
Genre: Tales, Medieval
ISBN:

This text presents one of the best-known stories in the Canterbury Tales in an accessible form for A-Level and college students. It uses the Riverside text and includes The Nun's Priest's Prologue, tale and epilogue as well as the Portrait of the Prioress from the General Prologue.

The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale

The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2016-06-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1316615529

Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. This stunning full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer series explores the complete text of The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale through a wide range of classroom-tested activities and illustrated information, including a map of the Canterbury pilgrimage, a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words and suggestions for study. Cambridge School Chaucer makes medieval life and language more accessible, helping students appreciate Chaucer's brilliant characters, his wit, sense of irony and love of controversy.

Chaucer's Dante

Chaucer's Dante
Author: Richard Neuse
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0520348745

Richard Neuse here explores the relationship between two great medieval epics, Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He argues that Dante's attraction for Chaucer lay not so much in the spiritual dimension of the Divine Comedy as in the human. Borrowing Bertolt Brecht's phrase "epic theater," Neuse underscores the interest of both poets in presenting, as on a stage, flesh and blood characters in which readers would recognize the authors as well as themselves. As spiritual autobiography, both poems challenge the traditional medieval mode of allegory, with its tendency to separate body and soul, matter and spirit. Thus Neuse demonstrates that Chaucer and Dante embody a humanism not generally attributed to the fourteenth century. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

Canterbury Tales Study Guide

Canterbury Tales Study Guide
Author: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2000-11-01
Genre: Children's literature
ISBN: 9780078235481

Provides teaching strategies, background, and suggested resources; reproducible student pages to use before, during, and after reading--Cover.