gets in, Sir Thopas flees the battle, pelted by stones. The poem thus contains many suggestions that it was intended in a mock-heroic sense. Thopas is the...
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looks down at his shoes and then tells his tale, the tale of Sir Thopas. In the story, Thopas is a gallant knight from Flanders who one day gets an erection...
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14th-century Canterbury tale, Sir Thopas, in which the knight Thopas "Him-self drank water of the wel, as did the knight Sir Percivel." Like the boy Perceval...
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Thomas Chestre (section Sir Launfal)
Desconus, among other Middle English romances, in his Canterbury Tale of Sir Thopas. The name Thomas Chestre occurs only once in medieval writings, in the...
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the Canon, and the fictive Geoffrey Chaucer, the teller of the tale of Sir Thopas (who might be considered distinct from the Chaucerian narrator, who is...
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Harry Bailly and reprimanded for the poor quality of his first story, Sir Thopas, which was compared to a turd, Chaucer launches into one of the longest...
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in his Canterbury Tales, written in the late 1300s, says of the knight Sir Thopas: (Note: jambeaux are greaves – shin armour). The large decorative crests...
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also explored the artful possibilities of doggerel. Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas is written in this format. It irritates the Host of The Tabard so much...
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noted above, Sir Perceval of Galles in sixteen-line stanzas. Geoffrey Chaucer only wrote one poem in tail rhyme, the tale of Sir Thopas in the Canterbury...
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from The Song of Roland to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (in "The Tale of Sir Thopas"). The name was genericised into a term referring to male characters with...
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same meter throughout almost all of his tales, with the exception of Sir Thopas and his prose tales. This is a line characterised by five stressed syllables...
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Japanese film Topacio, (Spanish for Topaz), a 1984 Venezuelan telenovela "Sir Thopas", one of The Canterbury Tales Topaz (novel), a 1967 novel by Leon Uris...
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R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Sir Olifaunt, a vicious giant in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Tale of Sir Thopas", in The Canterbury Tales Eleanor Oliphant...
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Charles, the Kinge of Fraunce. In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, "Sir Thopas" (supposed to be told by Chaucer himself on the pilgrimage) is a parody...
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form vitteas, and its usage in line 709 of Geoffrey Chaucer's tale of "Sir Thopas" has attracted particular commentary, since here the poem's narrator (a...
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parody of the king. Sir Thopas in Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer Morgante by Luigi Pulci The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh La...
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The Rape of the Lock, Morgante, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Tale of Sir Thopas, Chrononhotonthologos Character comedy Derived from a persona invented...
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OCLC 25967434. S2CID 159965790. Nicolas, Sir N. Harris (1832). The controversy between Sir Richard Scrope and Sir Robert Grosvenor, in the Court of Chivalry...
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24 24 "Chaucer" (General Prologue) 31 I.1 A.1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 "Chaucer" (Sir Thopas) 31 VII.3 B2.3 18 22 19 20 20 20 20 "Chaucer" (The Tale of Melibee) 31...
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William Dunbar (The Thrissil and the Rois) and David Lyndsay (Squyer Meldrum). Sir Thomas Wyatt used it in his poem "They flee from me that sometime did me...
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Chaucer's Sir Thopas. For a detailed linguistic analysis of the poem, see the "Phonology" chapter of Schmidt's edition. Fellows xvii. Hudson 176. In Sir Launfal...
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The Knightes Tale, The Reeves Tale, the Tale of Gamelyn, The Tale of Sir Thopas, etc, 1387-1400 Shakespeare, William: As you like it, Act III, Scene II...
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French loan-word fairy. An example is Geoffrey Chaucer's satirical tale Sir Thopas, where the title character sets out in a quest for the "elf-queen", who...
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and Geoffrey Chaucer refers to Ypotis as a well-known "romance" in his Sir Thopas Canterbury Tale. In this poem the conversation takes place between Hadrian...
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refers to Beves and other poems as "romances of prys" in his tale of Sir Thopas (v. 899), and the similarity of the opening lines of the two works (invoking...
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contributions, Warton, along with his brother, was among the first to argue that Sir Thopas, by Geoffrey Chaucer, was a parody. Warton contributed to the general...
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Chaucer makes it the birthplace of his Flemish knight in "The Tale of Sir Thopas" from the Canterbury Tales. Some 150 years later John Skelton follows...
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state of Jharkhand Topa River, a tributary of the Holod River in Romania Sir Thopas, a fictional character in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer This...
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Physician's Tale The Pardoner's Tale The Shipman's Tale The Prioress' Tale Sir Thopas The Tale of Melibee The Parson's Tale William Maurice (antiquary) Robert...
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of romance is parodied by Geoffrey Chaucer in his Canterbury Tale of Sir Thopas. Tail-rhyme verse, however, was very popular in late-medieval English...
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