"The Man of Law's Tale" is the fifth of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, written around 1387. John Gower's "Tale of Constance" in Confessio Amantis...
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warehouses, the pier, and Town Pier Square feature. The river scenes in "The Man of Law's Tale" were filmed on the River Medway and the Medway Estuary...
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and the Parlement of Foules, written in the later fourteenth century. He also used it for four of the Canterbury Tales: the Man of Law's Tale, the Prioress'...
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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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Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan (category Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)
1900 H.P. Macmillan, A Man of Law's Tale, London: MacMillan and Co., 1952 H.P. Macmillan, Law and other things L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971:...
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The Squire (along with The Shipman and The Summoner) is a candidate for the interrupter of The Host in the epilogue of the Man of Law's Tale. The Squire...
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allowing couplets to become too prominent in The Canterbury Tales, and four of the tales (the Man of Law's, Clerk's, Prioress', and Second Nun's) use rhyme...
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John Lydgate (category People from the Borough of St Edmundsbury)
Illustrium. The Man of Law's Tale, with its rhetorical elaboration of apostrophe, invocation, and digression in what is essentially a saint's legend, is the model...
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Character in Ride the Cyclone Constance, the heroine of The Man of Law's Tale Constanze, heroine of Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio Constance...
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Wife of Bath's Tale) The Man of Law's Tale - 26 December 1975: A financial scam goes wrong. Bill Maynard (Stan the fryer) Francis Matthews (Eric the prologue)...
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wrote an adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer's story "The Man of Law's Tale" from his work The Canterbury Tales, for the miniseries of the same name. Hetreed's...
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(2020). The Host, the Man of Law's Tale, and the Fantasy of the Foreign Wife. The Chaucer Review, 55(4), 397-421. Jungman, R. E. (1976). The Pardoner's Quarrel...
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and Ella, took the castle at Stirling. Aella, King of Northumbria, has a major supporting role in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Man of Law's Tale. Ælla was played...
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wives. It is also possible The Shipman may simply be imitating a female voice, but the epilogue of "The Man of Law's Tale" in some manuscripts suggests...
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actor The protagonist of a story in Nicholas Trivet's Les chronicles retold both as The Man of Law's Tale (by Geoffrey Chaucer) and as the Tale of Constance...
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John Gower (redirect from In Praise of Peace)
praise of Chaucer in the mouth of Venus at the end of the Confessio Amantis (first recension VIII.2950-70). The Introduction to the Man of Law's Tale (lines...
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Christopher Tolkien (category People educated at The Dragon School)
[1387–1400]. ———; Coghill, Nevill (eds.). The Man of Law's Tale. Harrap. ———, ed. (1975). Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo. Translated...
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Hengwrt Chaucer (category The Canterbury Tales)
Tale The Summoner's Tale The Monk's Tale The Nun's Priest's Tale The Manciple's Tale The Man of Law's Tale The Squire's Tale The Merchant's Tale The Franklin's...
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speaking tellers. The tale features the witch Baba Yaga as the antagonist of the tale, as she assumes the role of a mother-in-law that viciously hounds...
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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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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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Imagination (redirect from Evolution of imagination)
sense of "visualizing" with "the inner eye." An epitome of this concept is Chaucer's idea of the "mind's eye" in The Man of Law's Tale from The Canterbury...
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Vitae duorum Offarum (redirect from Lives of the two Offas)
the "Man of Law's Tale"). Portions of the text, especially those dealing with Quendrida (Cynethryth), are translated in: Fulk, Robert D. "The Name of...
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romances as The Man of Law's Tale and Emaré, but such fairy tales as The Girl Without Hands. It also bears resemblance to the fairy tale The Six Swans,...
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Monstrous birth (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
"Man of Law's Tale." Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century medical texts, which treat pregnancy as a disease, suggest that monstrous births may be the result...
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parts of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, which is a series of connected stories (such as "The Merchant's Tale" and "The Parson's Tale"). It also...
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Semiramis (redirect from Semiramis of Babylon)
Semiramis of the North. The mother of the sultan in "The Man of Law's Tale" in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is compared to Semiramis, with the intention...
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The Handmaid's Tale is an American dystopian television series created by Bruce Miller, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Canadian author Margaret...
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The Tale of Genji (源氏物語, Genji monogatari, pronounced [ɡeɲdʑi monoɡaꜜtaɾi]), also known as Genji Monogatari, is a classic work of Japanese literature...
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heavens into which he divided his Paradiso. In Geoffrey Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale", the Primum Mobile is apostrophized: "O firste moevyng! crueel firmament...
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