Kerala HSST Exam -2022 Practice /English Subject Notes /Part-02
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Based
on Boccaccio’s Decameron
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Collection
of 24 stories presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of
pilgrims as they travel together from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine
of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.
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More
than 17000 Lines
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Written
in Middle English between 1387 and 1400.
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Begins
with Knight’s Tale, ends with Parson’s (prose treatise)
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23
pilgrims tell stories.
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Chaucer
tells two stories. Tale of Sir Thopas and Tale of Melibeus (prose)
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Total
3 stories are in Prose(Chaucer’s two and Parsons’s One)
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Supposed
to tell 120 stories.
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The
Canterbury Tales ends with a “Retraction”, Chaucer’s apology for the vulgar and
unworthy parts of this book, as well as previous works
General
Prologue to the Canterbury Tales(1387)
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Portrait
gallery of 14th c. England
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The
narrator opens the General Prologue with a description of the return of spring.
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Written
in Heroic Couplet( Rhyming Couplet)
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29
pilgrims meet at Tabard Inn, Southwark (total pilgrims are 31 including poet
Chaucer & Harry Bailey who is the inn keeper)
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Pilgrims
are going to visit the Shrine of St Thomas Becket In Canterbury who was killed
in 1170. Pilgrims are also known as Palmers
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TS
Eliot’s verse play Murder in the Cathedral (1935)is written about the martyrdom
of St Thomas Becket
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Pen-pictures
of 21 pilgrims
• 858 lines in total
Tales in General Prologue
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1 The Knight’s Tale
2. The Miller’s tale
3. The Reeve’s Tale
4. The Cook’s Tale
5. The Man of Law’s Tale
6. The Wife of Bath’s Tale
7. The Friar’s Tale
8. The Summoner’s Tale
9. The Clerk’s Tale
10. The Merchant’s Tale
11. The Squire’s Tale
12. The Franklin’s Tale
13. The Doctor’s Tale
14. The Pardoner’s Tale
15. The Shipman’s Tale
16. The Prioress’s Tale
17. Chaucer’s Tale of Sir Thopas
18. Chaucer’s Tale of Meliboeus
19. The Monk’s Tale
20. The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
21. The Second Nun’s Tale
22. The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale
23. The Manciple’s Tale
24. The Parson’s Tale
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