What will the winner receive? The host will join the group and serve as the judge. How will the host decide the winner Canterbury Tales? Chaucer decides to create the character of the pardoner to prove his point.
Chaucer wants to attack the church’s hypocrisy. The Church is the first institution that Chaucer attacks using satire in The Canterbury Tales. In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer uses satire to attack the Church, the Patriarchy, and the Nobility. Who does Chaucer satirize in The Canterbury Tales? What do lines 781-803 suggest about his character? He is a very polite, considerate gentleman. How do you think the narrator feels about the host? The narrator really admires the host, and thinks he is a very striking, wise, generous man. What the Host describes is a tale-telling game, in which each pilgrim shall tell two tales on the way to Canterbury, and two more on the way home whoever tells the tale ‘of best sentence and moost solas’ shall have supper at the cost of all of the other pilgrims, back at the Inn, once the pilgrimage returns from … What do you learn about the host in these lines How do you think the narrator feels about the host? What is the game that the host suggests the pilgrims play?
A free dinner at the Tabard paid for by all the other pilgrims is the prize. What competition does the Host propose? What is the prize for the winner? Storytelling to and from Canterbury. What does the host propose as a prize for the best storyteller? The point of this is that the telling of the tales will help to pass the time on the long journey. The Host’s plan is that each pilgrim will tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two more on the way back to London. What is the host proposal in Canterbury Tales? Supposedly pious religious figures are shown to be corrupt and greedy just underneath the surface. The Nun’s Priest’s tale satirizes courtly love by putting chivalry in the setting of a barnyard. The social satire that the Host sets up in the General Prologue continues throughout the tales that the pilgrims tell. There is a punishment for anyone who complains about his decision and a reward for the best tale. What plan for the group does the host propose? The host decides that everyone will tell a story on the way there and the way back. In Middle England, The Host belonged to the “Elite” because he was an innkeeper. He establishes the main frame narrative of the Tales, since he is the one who proposes the tale-telling game and sets the rules that it will follow.
John, a north country student If you like this, you’ll like these too.The Host at the Tabard Inn, Harry Bailly, is a jolly, lively tavern-keeper. Show Off Simkin the miller (portrayed by The Miller) Harry Bailey, Host of The Tabard Inn, SouthwarkĪ yeoman, later revealed as a fiend of HellĪ tavern keeper (portrayed by Harry Bailey)Īlison, the carpenter’s beautiful young wife The six tales included are: The Nun’s Priest’s tale of Chanticleer and The Fox The Wife of Bath’s tale – enchantment, chivalric love, and the nature of faith and honour The Friar’s tale – a grim and chilling story of ill-deeds and grisly supernatural revenge The Pardoner’s tale – how three robbers, each trying to double-cross the others, all end up falling fatally foul of their own treachery The Miller’s tale – about a very old man, his very young wife and her admirers, and a case of mistaken identity involving a bare bottom and a red hot poker and The Reeve’s tale – the uproarious and farcical tale of Show-off Simkin, his buxom daughter, well-preserved wife, and the two lusty students whom he very ungraciously allows to stay in his house one night…Ĭast: Principals 7M 1F, plus an ensemble cast taking a further 30 or so cameo and extra roles. The whole play is framed within the context of the Pilgrims’ journey from Southwark to Canterbury, with linking and narration between each tale provided by Chaucer himself, and of course, prototypical genial host, Harry Bailey. These stories convey the gritty reality of life in Medieval England, combining into one boisterous and hilarious portrait of ordinary folk preoccupied with petty jealousies, mundane squabbles, and simple pleasures – all conveying really how little the English people have changed during 600 intervening years. Six of the best, bawdiest, and most accessible of Chaucer’s famous tales are included in this dramatic adaptation, originally produced in the open air with an ensemble cast to a great critical reception.
There’s nothing quite like The Canterbury Tales to put the present-day observer in touch with the ordinary lives of our medieval forbearers. (Based on the OUP translation from Middle English by David Wright) Six of the best, funniest, and bawdiest of Chaucer’s tales.
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