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His Works
The pages from The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1896).
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His Works
Among the band of pilgrims are a knight, a monk, a Though Chaucer wrote a number ofand lyrics, prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, the wife from Bath. which were imitated by his 15th-century
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The Tabard Inn in Southwark, a suburb of London (from nineteenth-century engraving)
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The Canterbury Tales
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Decameron）（P43）。
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The Canterbury Tales (2)
―The General Prologue‖ told us Chaucer
intended that each pilgrim should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two tales on the way back. More than 120 stories were supposed to be told. But Chaucer had actually completed only 22 stories, with two more existing in fragments. Two of the 24 tales were told by Chaucer. Scholars are uncertain about the order of the tales, and The Canterbury Tales has been passed down in several handwritten manuscripts.
1. Early and Medieval English literature(中古文学)
1) Anglo-Saxon Period (449-1066)
The main literary contribution of this period is the Epic, and its masterpiece is the national epic The Song of Beowulf, which is a long poem of 3182 lines about the deeds of the Teutonic (条顿)hero Beowulf in the 6th century. It is the oldest poem on the English language and the oldest surviving epic in Anglo-Saxon literature.
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Contents
1. The Life Experience 2. His Works 3. The Canterbury Tales 4. The Selected Reading ※Heroic Couplet
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The Life Experience
The Canterbury Tales
Pages from the Canterbury Tales
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The Canterbury Tales (1)
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories in a frame story(框架故事), between 1387 and 1400. It is the story A narrative of a group that provides of 32(30? the framework 31? 29?) within people a number of different stories, which may or whowhich travel as pilgrims to Canterbury may not be connected, can be told. (England). The pilgrims, who come from all 文学作品中一个故事套着一个故事的结构，故事中 layers of society, tell stories to each other to 的故事。如《天方夜谈》《坎特伯雷故事集》等。 最初原型一般归溯到《十日谈》（ Boccaccio’s kill time while they travel to Canterbury.
Epic: A long narrative poem on the adventures and great deeds of heroes.
2) The Anglo-Norman Period (1066-1350)
The literature of this period is greatly influenced by the Norman conquest. After the conquest, the customs and ideals known as chivalry was introduced by the Normans into England and can be reflected in literature, such as the knightly code, the romantic interest in women , tenderness and reverence paid to Virgin Mary etc.. The prevailing form of literature in the Feudal England was Romance (传奇，骑士文学). The most famous Romance was Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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Portrait of the Nun
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? Questions

How do you describe the character profile of the Prioress
from the description in the excerpt?

2. What is Heroic Couplet? Refer to the two lines on P3 in explaining the term: ―As soon as April pieces to the root, The drought of March, and bathes each bud and shoot‖ (P40)
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The
characterization of the Prioress: vain,
affected,
and a bit coquettish
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(PP39-40) It tells us she’s
Heroic Couplet
The first 2 lines in the description of the Knight
Canterbury Cathedral, England
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St. Thomas Becket
Archbishop of Canterbury, born at London, 21 December, 1118 (?); died at Canterbury, 29 December, 1170. 英国文学史及选读课程组

Lecture 2 Geoffrey Chaucer (1343—1400)
―Father‖ of English Poetry
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(2008)III. General Knowledge
35. The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury is an important poetic work by . A. William Langland B. William Shakespeare C. Geoffrey Chaucer D. Alfred Tennyson
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343—1400), a Londoner of bourgeois origin, an outstanding English poet before Shakespeare and ―the father of English poetry‖. His The Canterbury Tales ranks as one of the greatest poetic works in English. He also contributed importantly in the second half of the 14th century to the management of public affairs as courtier, diplomat, and civil servant. But it is his writing of poetry that makes him remembered.