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	The Reeve's Prologue and Tale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Reeve's Prologue and Tale is the third story to be told in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
		The tale is based on a popular fabliau of the period with many different versions, the "cradle-trick".
		The northern accents of the two clerks is also the earliest surviving attempt in English to record a dialect from an area other than that of the main writer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Reeve's_Prologue_and_Tale (804 words)

	The Clerk's Prologue and Tale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He tells the tale of Griselda, a young woman whose husband tests her loyalty in a series of bizarre torments that recall the Biblical book of Job.
		As the Clerk says in his prologue, the source of the tale is Petrarch.
		The Man of Law's tale on the Lady Constance also uses the theme of the long suffering woman but that story is told elaborately with many rhetorical flourishes whereas the clerks tale is told more simply as the Host requests.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Clerk's_Prologue_and_Tale (503 words)

	CHAUCER - LoveToKnow Article on CHAUCER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In June 1391 he was superseded in his office of clerk of the works, and seems to have suffered another spell of misfortune, of which the first alleviation came in January 1393 when the king made him a present of 10.
		The Canterbury Tales were subsequently printed in 1492 (Pynson), 1498 (de Worde) and 1526 (Pynson); Troilus in 1517 (de Worde) and 1526 (Pynson); the Ho-us of Fame in 1526 (Pynson); the Parlement of Foules in 1526 (Pynson) and 1530 (do Worde), and the Mars, Venus and Envoy to Bukton by Julyan Notary about 1500.
		In 1737 (reprinted in 1740) the Prologue and Knights Tale were edited (anonymously) by Thomas Moreli from the most authentic manuscripts, and here, though by dint of much violence and with many mistakes, Chaucers lines were for the first time in print given in a form in which they could be scanned.
	87.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CH/CHAUCER.htm (6224 words)

	Reeve's Prologue and Tale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Reeve's Tale descends through the Miller's Tale from that of the Knight, and on the critical point - the reduction of women to pawns of men - it is a true likeness of the original.
		"The failure of the intellect in Chaucer's Reeve's Tale." ELN 28 (1990): 17-19.
		Rodney Delasanta, "The Mill in Chaucer's Reeve's Tale.
	www.cas.suffolk.edu /richman/Eng323/revt.htm (1751 words)

	Frederic Colier, "What Amounteth Al This Wit?" [On Chaucer's Reeve's Tale]
		There reason is literally mistreated because the behavior of the two clerks and the women turns the mill into a monument celebrating the defeat of the intellectual (Baylor, 19).
		The interpretation that, perhaps, she is happy to get rid of the Clerk could suggest a stratagem to make Aleyn believe that his empty promise has deeply affected her, whereas she is simply fooling him.
		One should not forget that the Canterbury tales is the story of a pilgrimage whose participants, sinful mortals, go to seek redemption for the deeds they have committed in a place of purification, of ablution for the soul.
	chss.montclair.edu /english/furr/mel/colier.html (4445 words)

	The Electronic Canterbury Tales: The Reeve's Tale
		Read the Reeve's Prologue and Tale according to the Hengwrt ms (Hengwrt - Hg), one of the two most important early manuscripts, at the University of Toronto's Representative Poetry On-line site.
		Scott Gettman's edition of the Canterbury Tales (Electronic Literature Foundation) is accessible by individual tale and available in a variety of formats: Middle English, Modern English, Facing Page, and Interpolated - Glossed (frames; from unknown base text).
		Sample audio files (.wav,.au,.aiff) from the Reeve's Tale, recorded at the Tenth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Santa Monica College, Beverly Hills, July 1996, are available from the Chaucer Studio (Paul Thomas, Brigham Young).
	hosting.uaa.alaska.edu /afdtk/ect_reeve.htm (408 words)

	Chaucer--Parson
		The Prologue contains echoes of previous tales reaching back to Fragment I with the reference to astrological time, the "pley" issue (23), the act of revelation ("unbokele and shewe us what is in thy male" [X.26]; compare I.3115], and the choice to tell virtuous tales as opposed to "fable" (31-41).
		In Jordan's scheme, the "Parson's Tale," considered a moralizing aesthetic flaw by some 1950s New Critics and 1970s structuralists, was in fact the apex of the "cathedral"'s highest tower, reaching toward heaven.
		Portnoy's study of the interpretive patterns in the tales as a whole, and especially in the last fragment, lead her to believe that the "cathedral" structure is a figment of Jordan's imagination because it makes Chaucer more of an optimistic moralist than the tales can support.
	faculty.goucher.edu /eng330/chaucerparson.htm (1182 words)

	Miller
		Critics are divided on the issue of whether the fabliaux were intended for noble audiences because the tales made the bourgeois look so bad, or were intended for the bourgeois, themselves, indicating that they had a strong appetite for seeing themselves satirized in literature.
		The people of Oxford, mainly clerks, arrive in response to the household's cries of "Out harrow!" and the clerks all laugh at John, believing the lovers' tale that he madly imagined the second Flood by himself.
		Consider the possibility that even the bawdy tales can be designed to have a moral effect if read by sophisticated readers who are aware of the frame-narrative's influence on the tale's significance.
	faculty.goucher.edu /eng211/miller.htm (1624 words)

	Essays and Articles on Chaucer
		Chaucer's Knight, the Tale of Melibee, and the SocioHistorical Implications of Pilgrimage - Frederick Martin
		The Mercantile (Mis)reader in the Canterbury Tales - Roger A. Ladd
		The Clerk's Tale: A Chaucerian "Poetics of Conversion" - Richard Neuse
	www.luminarium.org /medlit/chaucessays.htm (2436 words)

	Chaucer: The Wife of Bath's Tale
		The Prologue is a dramatic monologue in which the character is shown in her own speech: yearning and uncertain.
		Her fifth husband (503ff) was a clerk of 20 when she was 40 so the situation in many respects is reversed.
		The Friar promises to tell a couple tales about summoners, and the Summoner vows to tell tales about friars, before the Host shuts them both up and invites the Wife to tell her tale.
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/chaucer/WBT.html (1375 words)

	A. C. Spearing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale (Selected Tales from Chaucer) from Cambridge University Press.
		The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales from Cambridge University Press.
		The Reeve's Prologue and Tale with the Cook's Prologue and the Fragment of his Tale (Selected Tales from Chaucer) from Cambridge University Press.
	www.flustercook.com /kitchen/authorsearch_A.%20C.%20Spearing/mode_books.html (231 words)

	Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale study questions
		NOTE: since you are not all using the same translation, references to the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale throughout the study questions and in class discussion will be to LINE NUMBERS in the original Middle English text printed in the NA.
		The Wife of Bath's Prologue is an example of the genre known as a literary confession (or "apology"), a first-person narrative in which a character explains his or her character and motivation.
		LOOKING DEEPER: The Franklin's Tale (a good and short read if you have time!) has sometimes been interpreted as representing Chaucer's "real" view of an ideal marriage founded upon equality, as opposed to the "bad" sort of marriage, founded upon dominance (maistrye), found in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale.
	cla.calpoly.edu /~dschwart/engl203/wb203.html (2099 words)

	Free-TermPapers.com - Silence And Suppression In The Reeve's Tale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		They are characterized by their description in the General Prologue, but not fully developed until they are seen in contrast to the pilgrim they are “quiting.” As the Miller’s personality is developed by his dissimilarity to the Knight, so is the Reeve by the Miller.
		The Reeve’s Tale is starkly contrasted to this.
		In the Reeve’s tale, a mother is committing adultery in the same room in which her daughter is having premarital sex.
	www.free-termpapers.com /tp/16/eqw9.shtml (3037 words)

	Will and the Law of Property
		The Plowman may be viewed as a secular shadow of the Christian ideals propounded by the unblemished Parson, not a fully formed character in himself, but the spiritual element of a character which may be adopted by any individual.
		At the same time, the illustrations suggest that the artist, probably a clerk of the Dublin Exchequer, held little allegiance to the religious clerical world, and disapproved of the images of standard iconography.
		Mede functions as the structural complement to Anima: lacking corporeal solidity or presence, she is emblematic of allegory's pure exterior.
	www.yls.cornell.edu /bib98.html (7768 words)

	commentary on the clerk's tale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The texts of The Wife of Bath's Tale and The Clerk's Tale are bound together by a common theme of marriage.
		Through the Clerk's language, the reader is able to gather clues that contribute to an advanced understanding of the Wife of Bath' character.
		In this tale, The Clerk's character Griselda rises from the lowest rank to the highest by proving her worthiness through a series of tests.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~nquesinb/chaucer/f-cmclerkt.htm (488 words)

	MACCABEES, BOOKS OF - Online Information article about MACCABEES, BOOKS OF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		tale may be said to have an historical setting.
		Although the book was favourably regarded in the Syrian, it was apparently unknown to the Latin Church.
		Clerks were told off to prepare a See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /LUP_MAL/MACCABEES_BOOKS_OF.html (3882 words)

	Massachusetts Local History
		Birth, Marriage and Death records, from the earliest date to present, may be requested from the town clerk's office in the town in which the event occurred.
		Sailors, Soldiers, and Marines of the Spanish-American War: The Legacy of USS Maine, By Rebecca Livingston (Prologue, Spring 1998).
		Genealogical Fallout from the War of 1812, By Ruth Priest Dixon (Prologue, Spring 1992) - "...The impressment of American seamen by the British was one of the causes of the War of 1812.
	home.att.net /~Local_History/MA_History.htm (6482 words)

	Lines 1000-1553. Aristophanes. 1909-14. The Frogs. The Harvard Classics.
		I’ll smash your prologues with a bottle of oil.
		Not yet, by Zeus; I’ve plenty of prologues left.
		That were a tale I could never believe in.
	www.bartleby.com /8/9/3.html (3069 words)

	CliffsNotes::The Canterbury Tales:Book Summary and Study Guide
		The only pilgrim who dislikes The Miller’s Tale is Oswald, the Reeve, who takes the story as a personal affront because he was once a carpenter.
		The miller’s wife, thinking that the swearing is coming from one of the students, grabs a club and, mistaking her husband for one of the clerks, strikes him down.
		Alan and John gather their ground wheat and flour and flee the premises.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-52,pageNum-17.html (532 words)

	The Electronic Canterbury Tales: The Reeve's Tale
		Canterbury Tales is available in a variety of formats
		Although unsuitable for formal research or college work, the ELF is the best online version for younger readers and those unfamiliar with Middle English.
		Like any other source, student essays must be evaluated rigorously, cited correctly, and used responsibly.
	afdtk.uaa.alaska.edu /ect_reeve.htm (408 words)

	Chaucer: The Cook's Tale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Now not clerks but riotous servants are involved.
		Probably the variety of the Canterbury pilgrimage was being ruined by this sequence of fabliaux and Chaucer decided to change course.
		See The Manciple's Prologue for his revised look at the Cook.
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/chaucer/CkT.html (93 words)

	SPAG Game Reviews B
		The opening sets us up to expect a tale of existential paralysis, but once in the dungeon the player character is disappointingly heroic.
		The dread god Baluthar might weigh heavily on the minds of the player character and his son, but we never see his glowering visage driving home the hopelessness of the situation, which drastically reduces the effectiveness of the (thematically quite neat) denouement.
		One example, from the prologue, after the NPC concludes that the PC has made him lose his pen: "The karmic repercussions will be severe.
	www.sparkynet.com /spag/b.html (18789 words)

	From 0520224884 TO 0521094143 Browse In Books
		Nuns Priests Prologue And Tale From The Canterbury Tales
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	www.browse-in-books.com /From_0520224884_TO_0521094143_Browse_In_Books.htm (625 words)

	GEOFFREY CHAUCER ca. 1343-1400 Quad:GEOFFREY CHAUCER ca. 1343-1400 The Canterbury Tales The General Prologue The ...
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	4 : THE REEVE'S TALE.
		Or else he is a fool, as clerkes sayn.
		I had almost gone to the clerkes' bed.
		The incidents of this tale were much relished in the Middle
	www.literatureproject.com /canterbury-tales/canterbury-tales_4.htm (4160 words)

	The Canterbury Tales - The Reeve's Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer - Read Print
		Notes to the Prologue to the Reeves Tale.
		As whilom to the wolf thus spake the mare:
		She ween'd* the clerk had wear'd a volupere*; supposed **night-cap
	www.readprint.com /chapter-1759/Geoffrey-Chaucer (3945 words)

	Geoffrey Chaucer, THE CANTERBURY TALES, The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		"Wait!" she said, "my tale is not begun.
		262 Thus goth al to the devel, by thy tale.
		673 And eek ther was somtyme a clerk at Rome,
	www.amb.cult.bg /british/1/chaucer/wife.htm (21554 words)

	Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
		Thus all goes to the devil in your tale.
		And Jenkin, our good clerk, was one of them.
		Therefore no woman by a clerk is praised.
	www.jsu.edu /depart/english/gates/wifebprt.htm (8291 words)

	"The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		And Jankin, our clerk, was one of those.
		Therefore, no woman is praised by any clerk.
		The clerk, when he is old, and may not do
	www.word-hoard.com /wifbath.htm (5153 words)

	Franklin's Prologue and Tale
		To clerks I leave disputing on what's meant.
		Hearken the tale, ere you upon her cry.
		I can no more, my tale is at an end.
	www.jsu.edu /depart/english/gates/frankprt.htm (5440 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales: Prologue to Wife of Bath's Tale [Modern]
		Medieval Sourcebook: Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales: Prologue to Wife of Bath's Tale [Modern]
		Canterbury Tales: Prologue to Wife of Bath's Tale [Modern Version]
		This text is part of the Internet Medieval Source Book.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/CT-prolog-bathmod.html (5720 words)

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