The Clerk's Tale is one of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, told by the Clerk of Oxford, a student of what would nowadays be considered philosophy or theology...
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allowing couplets to become too prominent in The Canterbury Tales, and four of the tales (the Man of Law's, Clerk's, Prioress', and Second Nun's) use rhyme...
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tale I, 3 for his first major published work, A Tale of a Tub (1704). The tale of patient Griselda (X, 10) was the source of Chaucer's "The Clerk's Tale"...
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Bicorn and Chichevache (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Nuttall Encyclopedia)
the envoy of the Clerk's Tale in his Canterbury Tales, ironically warning wives against the patience and obedience shown by Griselda in the story: O noble...
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Griselda (folklore) (category Characters in The Decameron)
appears in tales by Petrarch (died 1374, Historia Griseldis published 100 years later) and by Chaucer (The Clerk's Tale in The Canterbury Tales, late 1300s)...
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Pandosto (redirect from Pandosto: The Triumph of Time)
Winter's Tale. Greene, in turn, may have based the work on The Clerk's Tale, one of The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. Edward Chaney suggested that Robert...
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about the life and career of filmmaker Kevin Smith Clerk (surname), derived from the occupation Cleric (disambiguation), related word "The Clerk's Tale",...
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The Pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer are the main characters in the framing narrative of the book. In addition, they can be considered...
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Influence of Italian humanism on Chaucer (category The Canterbury Tales)
Thomas J. (2003). "Source or Hard Analogue? Decameron X, 10 and the Clerk's Tale". The Chaucer Review. 37 (4): 346–364. doi:10.1353/cr.2003.0011. Retrieved...
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Tale, the Prioress' Tale, the Clerk's Tale, and the Second Nun's Tale, and in a number of shorter lyrics. He may have adapted the form from a French ballade...
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