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Librarius: From the Canterbury Tales: General Prologue

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales with the Middle English and Modern English in a side-by-side format, and provides a glossary for unfamiliar terms.
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Harvard University

The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an interlinear translation of "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It provides the original Middle English line of text followed by a modern English line of text throughout the tale.
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Harvard University

Harvard: The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions

For Students 9th - 10th
This paper "The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions" by Mary Carruthers is a literary analysis of the Wife of Bath's Tale from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and her reference to Aesopian fable of the painting of the lion.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Chaucer: Introduction: Giovanni Boccaccio's the Decameron

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, the Italian precursor to The Canterbury Tales, from which Chaucer drew heavily. It provides links to a Chaucer and Boccaccio essay, the tale "Fedrigo's Falcon," and questions...
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Luminarium

Luminarium: Geoffrey Chaucer

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Luminarium offers Chaucer quotes, a biography, a collection of Chaucer's works, both in Middle and Modern English, a selection of essays about his times and his works and links to much of the other scholarly information about Chaucer on...
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TES Global

Tes: The Pardoner's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this PowerPoint lesson, each student will learn how to write a letter that requests a pardon for a personal mistake made. Each student will reply to a letter from a classmate and serve in the...
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Harvard University

The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: A Brief Chronology

For Students 9th - 10th
This timeline of Geoffrey Chaucer's life and times from 1300 to 1400 provides a historical and social context for The Canterbury Tales. Features links to related topics.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 12: Canterbury Tales

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Students learn how the stereotypes and characterization of Chaucer's pilgrims reflect his views of religious corruption and social boundaries in the medieval period. They will consider how the themes reflected in the general Prologue...
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Goucher College: "Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale"

For Students 9th - 10th
The following from the Goucher College are examined in regard to Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" from "The Canterbury Tales": Genre, Characters, Summary, and Issues and General Research Sources. Some thought-provoking...
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Goucher English / General Prologue

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, prepared for college English literature students, deals with the following aspects of Chaucer's General Prologue from "The Canterbury Tales": Genre, Form, Characters, Summary, Issues, and General Sources. Also contains...
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Harvard University

The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Main Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Geoffrey Chaucer Page provides materials for Harvard's Chaucer classes. It provides a wide range of texts and translations of Chaucer's works along with critical articles from various perspectives and general...
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Geoffery chaucer.org: A Guide to Online Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed online guide to numerous websites that deal with the life and the works of Geoffery Chaucer, author of "The Canterbury Tales."
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Universal Teacher

Moore's Teacher Resources: The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent site from the UK. Includes biographical information on Chaucer, historical context, and in-depth information on the Wife of Bath, complete with the relationship between the prologue and tale, character analysis, and essay...
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New Advent

Catholic Encyclopedia: Geoffrey Chaucer

For Students 9th - 10th
Quotations and a bibliography accompany this biography of Geoffrey Chaucer from The Catholic Encyclopedia.
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Luminarium

Luminarium: Sources of Additional Information on Chaucer

For Students 9th - 10th
Links to resources devoted to Chaucer: biographies, bibliographies, discussion groups, images, works, and the like.
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Librarius: "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer

For Students 9th - 10th
This site details a chronology of Chaucer's life and the historical events that occurred during that time. It also has the Canterbury Tales with the Middle English and Modern English in a side-by-side format, and provides a Glossary for...
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: T He Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Tale

For Students 9th - 10th
Read and learn more about this fascinating tale in this comprehensive site about The Wife of Bath's Tale.
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Univ. Of Wisconsin: Rare Editions of "Canterbury Tales"

For Students 9th - 10th
The libraries of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, have published reproductions of a variety of early printings of "The Canterbury Tales." See selected pages from an early fifteenth-century illustrated edition, from a rare...
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: A Close Reading of Chaucer's 'The Merchant's Prologue and Tale'

For Students 9th - 10th
This article introduces 'The Merchant's Prologue and Tale', exploring the way in which it combines literary genres and traditions, and refuses to give the reader a clear moral or message.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Female 'Soveraynetee' in Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale'

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explores the character of the Wife of Bath and the ambiguity surrounding her outspoken views on marriage, power, and religious doctrine.
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue and Frame Story

For Students 9th - 10th
Read background information on The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue and Frame Story in this informative site that includes a look at the characters.
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Shmoop University

S Hmoop: The Canterbury Tales: The Second Nun's Tale

For Students 9th - 10th
Found in The Canterbury Tales, the Second Nun's Tale is the story of how a woman converts her husband and brother in law to becoming Christians. Read about the other characters in this fascinating tale.
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Harvard University

The Harvard Chaucer Page: "Piers Plowman"

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of William Langland's (1332?-1400?) middle English narrative poem "Piers Plowman." Includes scholarly introduction that notes parallels between the poem and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Gender and Sexuality

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine representations of gender, sex, and relationships in medieval literature, from the works of women's writers to tales of courtly love to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.