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Acknowledgements | |
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Editors | |
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Foreword | |
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Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale in Context | |
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The Nun's Priest's Tale | |
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The Nun's Priest's Prologue | |
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The Nun's Priest's Tale | |
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Epilogue to The Nun's Priest's Tale | |
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Notes | |
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The Nun's Priest's Prologue | |
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The Knight interrupts The Monk: lines 1-25 | |
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The Host speaks to The Monk and The Nun's Priest: lines 26-54 | |
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The Nun's Priest's Tale | |
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A description of the poor widow: lines 55-80 | |
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A description of Chauntecleer: lines 81-98 | |
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Chauntecleer's hens: lines 99-115 | |
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Chauntecleer's dream: lines 116-41 | |
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Pertelote responds to Chauntecleer's dream: lines 142-203 | |
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Chauntecleer begins his reply: lines 204-17 | |
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Chauntecleer's first story: lines 218-96 | |
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Chauntecleer's second story: lines 297-343 | |
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Chauntecleer cites more examples and authorities: lines 344-90 | |
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Chauntecleer is overcome by Pertelote's beauty: lines 391-420 | |
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Chauntecleer's precarious happiness: lines 421-48 | |
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The fox lies in wait for Chauntecleer: lines 449-63 | |
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The Nun's Priest on dreams and predestination: lines 464-84 | |
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The Nun's Priest on women's advice: lines 485-500 | |
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Chauntecleer notices the fox: lines 501-15 | |
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The fox's flattering speech: lines 516-64 | |
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The fox seizes Chauntecleer: lines 565-608 | |
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Everyone chases the fox: lines 609-35 | |
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Chauntecleer's escape and the moral of the tale: lines 636-80 | |
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Epilogue to The Nun's Priest's Tale | |
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The Host congratulates The Nun's Priest on his tale: lines 681-96 | |
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Interpretations | |
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Setting and genre | |
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Setting the tale in context | |
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The link between The Monk's Tale and The Nun's Priest's Tale | |
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Genre | |
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The beast-fable | |
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The heroic and the mock-heroic | |
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Realism | |
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The 'mixed style' | |
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Structure, language and style | |
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Narrative and narrators | |
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Rhetoric | |
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Ideas and themes | |
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Dreams | |
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Attitudes to women | |
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Relationships between men and women | |
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Taketh the moralite... | |
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The Epilogue | |
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Critical views | |
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Essay Questions | |
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Chronology | |
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Further Reading | |
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A Note on Chaucer's English | |
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A Note on Pronunciation | |
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Glossary | |
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Appendix | |
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The description of The Prioress | |
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Chauntecleer's first story | |
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A beast-fable from Aesop | |
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A summary of the story of Reynard and Chantecler | |