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TalesThe Miller’s Tale, as opposed to other tales that we have read so far, isfilled with double meanings that one must understand to catch the crudeness andvulgarity that make the tale what it is. The fact that The Monk’s Tale shouldhave followed The Knight’s Tale should tell you something about the Miller. The Miller ended…

Canterbury Tales By ChaucerBy far Chaucer’s most popular work, although he might have preferred to havebeen remembered by Troilus and Criseyde, the Canterbury Tales was unfinished athis death. No less than fifty-six surviving manuscripts contain, or oncecontained, the full text. More than twenty others contain some parts or anindividual tale. The work begins with a…

Canterbury Tales By ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is a story of nine and twenty pilgrimstraveling to Canterbury, England in order to visit the shrine of St. Thomas A. Becket. The General Prologue starts by describing the beauty of nature and ofhappy times, and then Chaucer begins to introduce the pilgrims. Most ofChaucer’s pilgrims are not…

Many characters in The Canterbury Tales are only described in the smallest detail. Only a handful are given a physical description and even fewer are actually given names to go by. A character that has a most descriptive detail and also one, whom has a name, is Alice, the Wife of Bath. This majestic lady…