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	Prologue - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Prologue (Greek prologos), in drama, an opening speech, usually in verse, spoken by one of the actors to introduce the play.
		Prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale from The Canterbury Tales
		Prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Prologue.html (159 words)

	General Prologue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first lines from the General Prologue in the opening folio of the Hengwrt manuscript.
		The General Prologue is the assumed title of the series of portraits that precedes The Canterbury Tales.
		The general prologue seems deliberately disorganised implying the same sort of confused rabble that have set out that April day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/General_Prologue (640 words)

	Chaucer: The General Prologue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In addressing "The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales" we are dealing with what has long been recognized as one of the greatest masterpieces of English literature, certainly the finest and most influential work of fiction to emerge in England from that period we call the Middle Ages.
		Irony, considered very generally, refers to the quality of language to have different levels of meaning, to be ambiguous, so that we are not entire certain how to interpret a particular phrase or descriptive detail or action.
		In poetry and fiction generally, irony is a writer's stock in trade because it is the surest way to remind the reader that the subject matter of this text is not something simple and literal, but inherently ambiguous.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~johnstoi/Eng200/chaucer.htm (6239 words)

	The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is the General Prologue that serves to establish firmly the framework for the entire story-collection: the pilgrimage that risks being turned into a tale-telling competition.
		The title "General Prologue" is a modern invention, although a few manuscripts call it prologus.
		Nothing indicates when Chaucer began to compose the General Prologue and there are no variations between manuscripts that might suggest that he revised it after making an initial version.
	ccsun7.sogang.ac.kr /~anthony/Chaucer/Genprol.htm (1483 words)

	SparkNotes: The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue: Introduction
		The narrator opens the General Prologue with a description of the return of spring.
		The invocation of spring with which the General Prologue begins is lengthy and formal compared to the language of the rest of the Prologue.
		(The nobility, not represented in the General Prologue, traditionally derives its title and privileges from military duties and service, so it is considered part of the military estate.) In the portraits that we will see in the rest of the General Prologue, the Knight and Squire represent the military estate.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/canterbury/section1.html (954 words)

	commentary on general prologue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Prologue plays an important part in the construction of The Canterbury Tales and, more specifically, in the construction of the Wife of Bath's character, although scholars have presumed The General Prologue to have been written after The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale.
		Since The General Prologue is the first part of the printed text of The Canterbury Tales that the reader encounters, the reader's perception is sure to be influenced by the character's portraits.
		The General Prologue paints such a vivid portrait of the Wife of Bath that Chaucer allows the Wife of Bath later to create more characteristics of herself through her own words in The Wife of Bath's Prologue.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~nquesinb/chaucer/f-cmgenp.htm (921 words)

	prologue
		The General prologue begins with the same tone, even some of the same details, but where the audience expects to hear that it is the time for gay and amorous thoughts, they hear instead:
		Also one might think about some of the problems raised by the characters in the General Prologue; it is a collection of nonpareils, each a master of his or her trade, but it is also a great gathering of scoundrels.
		It is the General Prologue that serves to establish firmly the framework for the entire story-collection: the pilgrimage that risks being turned into a tale-telling competition.
	www.litnotes.co.uk /prologue2.htm (2875 words)

	General Prologue
		These topics directly relate to the characters of the General Prologue since the pilgrims provide a cross section of medieval society and represent the "three estates" as they were in Chaucer's time.
		The portraits of the characters in the General Prologue provide a commentary on how the characters fail to live up to who they are, and how they are supposed to live.
		The general model of "Those Who Work," "Those Who Fight," and "Those Who Pray," should not be thought of as a rigid model of society that came into being at the beginning of the Middle Ages and held until the end of this age.
	www.geocities.com /readmore2002/readmore2002/general.htm (1188 words)

	The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
		Nothing indicates when Chaucer began to compose the General Prologue and there are no variations between manuscripts that might suggest that he revised it after making an initial version.
		The narrator of this Prologue is Chaucer, but this pilgrim Chaucer is not to be too simply identified with the author Chaucer.
		Neither must he be blamed if he does not put people in the order of their social rank, "My wit is short, ye may well understand." This persona continues to profess the utter naivety that we have already noted in his uncritical descriptions of the pilgrims.
	hompi.sogang.ac.kr /anthony/Chaucer/Genprol.htm (1483 words)

	Chaucer - The General Prologue (447-478) about the wife of Bath. - Coursework.Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Chaucer - The General Prologue (447-478) about the wife of Bath.
		The General Prologue (447-478) about the wife of Bath The Wife of Bath has been married five times and is looking for a sixth husband (see her prologue).
		The wife is deaf (why she is, is explained in her prologue).
	coursework.info /.../Chaucer_The_General_Prologue_447_478_L38321.html (317 words)

	Canterbury Tales - Speaking the Prologue
		Students should be familiar with the general sound of Middle English already, also from previous lessons.
		Although students have already been introduced to the prologue, they read over it again with the help of the teacher, recalling information from previous lessons.
		The teacher explains that students will be required to use the pronunciation guide, the text, and the audio to memorize the first 12 lines of the Prologue, ending with the word "pilgrimages." Students are given 15 more minutes to listen to the audio or practice speaking in pairs.
	www.glc.k12.ga.us /BuilderV03/LPTools/LPShared/lpdisplay.asp?LPID=14796 (1015 words)

	Essential Chaucer: General Prologue
		A Commentary on the General Prologue to the "Canterbury Tales".
		Compares the techniques of description used in the General Prologue to those of the portraits on the wall of the garden in Roman de la rose, concluding that Chaucer modelled his Prologue on the French poem and was influenced by the broader tradition of dream vision.
		Correlates the arrangement of the pilgrims in General Prologue with fourteenth-century social ranks, arguing from social history and lexical analysis.
	colfa.utsa.edu /chaucer/ec28-1-8.html (1044 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: The Canterbury Tales Study Guide
		The General Prologue in essence serves as a guide for the tales, giving some explanation for the motivation behind each of the tales each character tells.
		The introductory imagery of the General Prologue mixes the spiritual with the secular and moves between each form with relative ease.
		Yet Chaucer is equally uninterested in the religious details of this journey, and keeps the beginning passages of the General Prologue focused on nature and not on the human society with which the travelers will deal.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/canterbury/section3.html (1462 words)

	The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale at AllExperts
		The Pardoner is an enigmatic character, portrayed as grotesque in the General Prologue and apparently aware of his own sin—it is not clear why he tells the pilgrims about his own sin in the prologue prior to his tale—and yet his preaching is correct and the result of his methods, despite their corruption, are good.
		Like that prologue the Pardoner's is heavily influenced by the Romance of the Rose particularly the Fals Semblaunt episode.
		Because it was written on the eve of the Reformation and Renaissance, it is generally believed that while it was still dangerous to denounce Church practices, Chaucer was able to use literary techniques to make his message more subtle.
	en.allexperts.com /e/t/th/the_pardoner's_prologue_and_tale.htm (724 words)

	General Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Study Questions
		Chaucer begins his General Prologue with an evocation of April, of birdsong and flowers, and of people who ALSO are in a state of longing.
		Pilgrimage as Metaphor: From the General Prologue to
		Note that while this attitude seems appropriate to Chaucer's Parson, it cannot plausibly be attributed to the Chaucer of the General Prologue, who seems intent upon demonstrating his ability to write a broad variety of the very "fables" that the Parson scorns.
	cla.calpoly.edu /~dschwart/engl512/gp.html (1636 words)

	The Canterbury Tales Book Notes Summary by Geoffrey Chaucer: The General Prologue
		The Canterbury Tales begin in April, as the narrator (Chaucer) begins a pilgrimage from the Tabard Inn at Southwerk to the famed Canterbury, where Sir Thomas a Becket, a martyr for Christianity, is supposedly buried.
		The General Prologue is a basic descriptive list of the twenty-nine people who become pilgrims to journey to Canterbury, each telling a story along the way.
		The first pilgrim mentioned in the prologue is properly the Knight, a worthy man who has fought in the crusades.
	www.bookrags.com /notes/ct/PART1.htm (648 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales: Prologue (Selected Tales from Chaucer): Books: Geoffrey ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales has been carefully annotated to enable modern readers to understand the Middle English text which is placed in its fourteenth-century context.
		Yet it is in the Prologue that we meet the entire company of disparate characters on their way to Canterbury.
		The Prologue is necessary reading for anyone wishing to read The Canterbury Tales, as it sets the scene for what is to come.
	www.amazon.co.uk /General-Prologue-Canterbury-Tales-Selected/dp/0521046297 (964 words)

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	The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages: Topic 1: Overview
		What is interesting about Chaucer's Prologue is not that it portrays an archaic and closed social order but that it reveals that order in the process of breaking down.
		This is a classification that the Wife of Bath in her Prologue professes to accept while defending her right to remarry as often as she pleases (NAEL 8, 1.256–60).
		Although the three estates were supposed to work together for the common good, their actual history is one of constant friction and conflict.
	www.wwnorton.com /nael/middleages/topic_1/welcome.htm (1313 words)

	Prologue - General Robert E. Lee's Parole and Citizenship
		On that historic occasion, April 9, 1865, the two generals formalized the surrender of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, thus bringing an end to four years of fighting between North and South.
		After agreeing upon terms of the surrender, the generals each selected three officers to oversee the surrender and parole of Lee's army.
		Was a General in the Confederate Army, and included in the surrender of the Army of N. Va. 9 April '65.
	www.archives.gov /publications/prologue/2005/spring/piece-lee.html (501 words)

	Chaucer: The General Prologue on CD-ROM - Cambridge University Press
		The General Prologue on CD-ROM presents full materials for detailed study of the text of The General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, the most-read of all parts of the Tales.
		The exact text of every word of every text may be compared through full collations in both original-spelling and regularized form.
		General editors’ introduction; Editor’s introduction; Witnesses (transcripts and images); Collations; All-witness spelling databases; Analysis workshop; Stemmatic commentary; Articles; Sigils; General bibliography; User guide.System requirementsThe CD-ROM runs identically on PC Windows and Macintosh systems.
	www.cambridge.org /uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521588081 (361 words)

	"And riden in Belmarye": Chaucer's General Prologue, Line 57
		Arcite is compared to a tiger of the vale of Galgopheye in India whose whelp is stolen, and Palemon, is compared to the lion of Belmarye, hunting or mad from hunger (Chaucer, Chaucer The Prologue 2625-31).
		Neither Manly and Rickert (5:107) nor the Variorum Edition of the General Prologue (1A: 133) record any variants for Belmarye in any of the MSS, and the word is not in the Middle English Dictionary.
		Chaucer The Prologue, The Knightes Tale The Nonne Preestes Tale from the Canterbury Tales.
	www.geocities.com /salferrat/chauckroch.htm (2274 words)

	Kankedort.net - The Electronic Canterbury Tales: An Online Companion and Compendium to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
		Prologue to the Siege of Thebes, which is modeled upon the General Prologue.
		Prologue to the Tale of Beryn (a fifteenth century imitation)
		Sample audio files (.wav,.au,.aiff) from the General Prologue, recorded at Brigham Young University in 1990, are available from the Chaucer Studio (Paul Thomas, Brigham Young).
	www.kankedort.net /ect_genprol.htm (2850 words)

	RPO -- Selected Poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343-1400)
		The Friar's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
		The General Prologue from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
		The Miller's Prologue and Tale from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
	rpo.library.utoronto.ca /poet/61.html (246 words)

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	Chaucer
		As you read the General Prologue, keep your eye open for the social satire that is implicit in these character descriptions.
		Recognize that the Chaucer who is the speaker in the prologue is not necessarily the same as the Chaucer who is the author of the work--the author Chaucer has created a character Chaucer--and the character sometimes will seem a little dense.
		I love the General Prologue because I feel as though I really know these people who are on the pilgrimage.
	spider.georgetowncollege.edu /english/allen/prologue.htm (192 words)

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