By Robert M. Correale
A brand new two-volume variation of the assets and significant analogues of the entire Canterbury stories ready by way of contributors of the recent Chaucer Society. This assortment, the 1st to seem in over part a century, positive factors such additions as a clean interpretation of Chaucer's assets for the body of the paintings, chapters at the resources of the final Prologue and Retractions, and smooth English translations of all international language texts. Chapters at the person stories comprise an up to date survey of the current country of scholarship on their resource fabrics. numerous resources and analogues chanced on in the past fifty years are stumbled on the following jointly for the 1st time, and a few different regular resources are re-edited from manuscripts towards Chaucer's copies. quantity I comprises chapters at the body and the stories of the Reeve, cook dinner, Friar, Clerk, Squire, Franklin, Pardoner, Melibee, Monk, Nun's Priest, moment Nun and Parson. Chapters at the different stories, including the overall Prologue and Retractions will look in quantity . ROBERT M. CORREALE teaches at Wright country college, Ohio; MARY HAMEL teaches at Mount St Mary collage, Maryland,
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77–103. v. 1. The Reeve’s Tale PETER G. BEIDLER I. II. clers: Text A (from MS 354 Bibliothèque de Berne) 29 II. II. clers: Text B (from Hamilton MS, Berlin) 43 III. ij. 589–623, Royal Library, Brussels “Hulthem Collection”) 57 IV. Decameron IX, 6 (ed. Vittore Branca) 67 One of the most popular fabliaux in medieval Europe was the story of two young men who trick their host, one by seducing his daughter and the other by making love to his wife after the shifting of a cradle containing his baby. Chaucer clearly did not invent the broad outlines of what is sometimes called the “cradle-trick story” that he adapted for his own literary purposes in the Reeve’s Tale.
Redstone and Lilian J. Redstone, “The Heyrons of London: A Study in the Social Origins of Geoffrey Chaucer,” Speculum 12 [1937]: 182–95, pp. 190, 184–5). Liber Custumarum, pp. 225–6. 59 “Telling tales” here refers first to storytelling on the road and then to tall stories told afterwards, travellers’ tales of the kind Chaucer also ascribes to pilgrims in the House of Fame (2122–3). The casualness of these references indicates that the association of pilgrims and storytelling was a familiar one.
The clerks found the miller. Now they spoke. 85 “Sire,” said the one, “by St. ” “Came ahead, for God’s sake? ” They went right off to the mill, 90 but found neither sack nor mare. One looked at the other. “What’s this, by God? ” 95 They cried, “Alas! Alas! What will we do, St. ” “Surely, we’ve been badly treated. Sir, we have lost everything. 100 A great misfortune has befallen us. ” Or est li clerc mis au chemin. 65 A son conpaignon, qui l’atent, Sachiez, anuie mout forment. Ques le mounier revint errant Et trueve sa fame filant.