The Merchant's Prologue and Tale
Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2016-06-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1316615472 |
Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. This stunning full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer series explores the complete text of The Merchant's Prologue and Tale through a wide range of classroom-tested activities and illustrated information, including a map of the Canterbury pilgrimage, a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words and suggestions for study. Cambridge School Chaucer makes medieval life and language more accessible, helping students appreciate Chaucer's brilliant characters, his wit, sense of irony and love of controversy.
The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation
Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 2012-03-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 039334178X |
Fisher's work is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter and faithfully articulating his poetic voice, Fisher makes Chaucer's tales accessible to a contemporary ear.
The Miller's Prologue and Tale
Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2016-06-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1316615499 |
Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. This stunning full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer series explores the complete text of The Miller's Prologue and Tale through a wide range of classroom-tested activities and illustrated information, including a map of the Canterbury pilgrimage, a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words and suggestions for study. Cambridge School Chaucer makes medieval life and language more accessible, helping students appreciate Chaucer's brilliant characters, his wit, sense of irony and love of controversy.
The Clerk's Prologue and Tale
Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2016-09-20 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1316615650 |
The classic respected series in a stunning new design. This edition of The Clerk's Prologue and Tale from the highly-respected Selected Tales series includes the full, complete text in the original Middle English, along with an in-depth introduction by James Winny, detailed notes and a comprehensive glossary.
The Clerk's Tale
Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : |
Sita's Ramayana
Author | : Samhita Arni |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781554981458 |
The Ramayana is an epic poem by the Hindu sage Valmiki, written in ancient Sanskrit sometime after 300 BC. It is an allegorical story that contains important Hindu teachings, and it has had great influence on Indian life and culture over the centuries. Children are often encouraged to emulate the virtues of the two main characters -- Rama and Sita. The Ramayana is frequently performed as theater or dance, and two Indian festivals -- Dussehra and Divali -- celebrate events in the story. This version of The Ramayana is told from the perspective of Sita, the queen. After she, her husband Rama and his brother are exiled from their kingdom, Sita is captured by the proud and arrogant king Ravana and imprisoned in a garden across the ocean. Ravana never stops trying to convince Sita to be his wife, but she steadfastly refuses his advances. Eventually Rama comes to her rescue with the help of the monkey Hanuman and his army. But Rama feels he can't trust Sita again. He forces Sita to undergo an ordeal by fire to prove herself to be true and pure. She is shocked and in grief and anger does so. She emerges unscathed and they return home to their kingdom as king and queen. However, suspicion haunts their relationship, and Sita once more finds herself in the forest, but this time she is pregnant. She has twins and continues to live in the forest with them. The story is exciting and dramatic, with many turns of plot. Magic animals, snakes, divine gods, demons, sorcerers and a vast cast of characters all play a part in the fierce battles fought to win Sita back. And in the process the story explores ideas of right vs. wrong, compassion, loyalty, trust, honor and the terrible price of war.
The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales
Author | : Charles Abraham Owen |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780859913348 |
Owen investigates what the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales reveal about the way they came into being. [see revs] This study of the manuscripts of the Canterbury Talescalls into question previous efforts to explain the complexities, the different orderings of the tales and the extraordinary shifts in textual affiliations within the manuscripts. Owen sees the manuscripts that survive, most of them collections of all or almost all the tales, as derived from the large number of single tales and small collections that circulated after Chaucer's death. This theory takes issue with all modern editions of the Canterbury Tales, which in Owen's view reflect the effort of medieval scribes and supervisors to make a satisfactory book of the collection of fragments Chaucer left behind. It is this collection of fragments, the authentic Tales of Canterbury by Geoffrey Chaucer, which reflects the different stages of the plan that was still evolving at his death. CHARLES A. OWEN Jr is former Professor of English and Chairman of Medieval Studies at the University of Conneticut.