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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 | |