"The Physician's Tale" is one of The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century. It is a domestic drama about the relationship...
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"The Pardoner's Tale" is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. In the order of the Tales, it comes after The Physician's Tale and before The...
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The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English...
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The Pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer are the main characters in the framing narrative of the book. In addition, they can be considered...
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Geoffrey Chaucer (redirect from The father of English literature)
known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He was the first...
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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 the form from a French ballade...
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Verginia (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
discontent. The tale is retold, with varying fidelity, in several works of Western literature. Among these are Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Physician's Tale" in his...
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The Handmaid's Tale is an American dystopian drama television series created by Bruce Miller, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood...
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Sheridan Knowles A character in The Physician's Tale, one of the Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, written in the 14th century Lucius Verginius, a...
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A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by English author Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution...
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Katherine Swynford (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
the prototype for the beautiful Virginia, the heroine of "The Physician's Tale", which is part of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. During the...
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Hengwrt Chaucer (category The Canterbury Tales)
Franklin's Tale The Second Nun's Prologue and Tale The Clerk's Tale The Physician's Tale The Pardoner's Tale The Shipman's Tale The Prioress' Tale Sir Thopas...
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Appius and Virginia (section In the Restoration)
the original Ab Urbe condita of Livy, it appears in The Romance of the Rose, and the Confessio Amantis of John Gower, and The Physician's Tale in The...
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"The Twelve Months" is a Czech fairy tale, which was first mentioned by a Czech writer, scholar, physician, lexicographer, canon of the St. Vitus Cathedral...
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Blind physician Seo Yeong ... Dan-bi Kim Ki-doo A Tale of Legendary Libido was released in South Korea on 30 April 2008, and was ranked sixth at the box...
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A Commentary on the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales is a 1948 doctoral dissertation by Muriel Bowden that examines historical backgrounds to characters...
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and other myths about the Claudii were fabricated in the late Republic by the historian Valerius Antias. The Physician's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer Appius...
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Godfather Death (category The Devil in fairy tales)
again, he will take the physician's life. Not much later, the king's daughter becomes ill and the physician goes to see her. The king promises his daughter's...
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Komesaroff PA, Riding a crocodile: A physician’s tale. Australia, University of Western Australia Press, 2014 Husserl E. Ideas. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1975...
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story. The 1903 J. M. Rigg translation headings are used in many of these summaries. Commentary on the tale itself follows. Before beginning the story-telling...
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mine". The tale was first published in book form by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones in London, Paternoster-Row, in 1819 in octavo as The Vampyre; A Tale in 84...
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John William Polidori (category Writers from the City of Westminster)
character Augustus Darvell, which Polidori used later as the basis for his own tale, "The Vampyre", the first published modern vampire story in English. Polidori's...
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Wikipedia (redirect from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
(2007). The World is Flat. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. p. 124. ISBN 978-0-374-29278-2. Buchanan, Brian (November 17, 2006). "Founder shares cautionary tale of...
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Snow White: A Tale of Terror is a 1997 American dark fantasy gothic horror film based on the fairy tale of the same name. It was directed by Michael Cohn...
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Word of Honor (TV series) (redirect from A Tale of the Wanderers)
Word Of Honor (Chinese: 山河令; pinyin: Shānhé lìng), previously titled A Tale of the Wanderers (天涯客), is a 2021 Chinese costume streaming television series...
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Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, then included in the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. The short story, a work of Gothic fiction, includes...
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Tales of the Unexpected is a British anthology series, which was broadcast on ITV from 1979 to 1988. Each episode features a dramatised story that has...
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The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is a novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner first published in 1873. It satirizes greed and political corruption...
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are told: "Morella", "The Black Cat" (which is combined with another Poe tale, "The Cask of Amontillado"), and "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"....
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Israel–Hamas war (redirect from Iranian involvement in the Israel–Hamas war)
violence. "Appendix to letter of October 2, 2024 re: American physicians observations from the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023" (PDF). gazahealthcareletters...
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