The Prologue and Tale of Beryn are spurious fifteenth century additions to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. They are both written in Middle English...
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both good and negative ways) "The Knight's Tale". The Miller's Prologue is the first "quite" that occurs in the tales. The general prologue to The Canterbury...
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Urry. John Lydgate wrote The Siege of Thebes in about 1420. Like the Tale of Beryn, it is preceded by a prologue in which the pilgrims arrive in Canterbury...
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Rhyme royal (section Introduction and success)
Canterbury Tales: the Man of Law's Tale, the Prioress' Tale, the Clerk's Tale, and the Second Nun's Tale, and in a number of shorter lyrics. He may have adapted...
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Geoffrey Chaucer (redirect from The father of English literature)
to offer descriptions of the manuscripts of Chaucer's works, and the first to print texts of 'Gamelyn' and 'The Tale of Beryn', works ascribed to, but...
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Canterbury Tales within the context of its General Prologue. Bloomfield, Morton W. (March 1950). "Reviews: A Commentary on the General Prologue to the Canterbury...
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Edward Aveling (category Alumni of University College London)
non-Chaucerian "Prologue and Tale of Beryn" in one fifteenth-century manuscript of The Canterbury Tales (the Northumberland manuscript). The representation of 'Kit...
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Yeoman (category History of the British Isles)
places the Merchant's Tale of Beryn about the same time as the Robin Hood and the Monk manuscript, and shortly before the end of the Hundred Years War...
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