Canterbury Tales (Enriched Classics)

9780671727697 - Canterbury Tales (Enriched Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer

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Canterbury Tales

For Chaucer, Palamon is raised to equal importance, if not more importance, than his rival. And Chaucer transforms the vain and coquettish Emilia of his source into a more innocent object of the love of rival cousins. That design sometimes involves what looks like adversity, but the adversity is always for Boethius part of a design that leads to happiness. We should then, according to Boethius, not resist or fight against the troubles that come our way, but cheerfully accept them, trusting that in the end things will work out for the best.

For this and the other tales in this volume, readers should reread the portrait of the teller given by Chaucer in the General Prologue. The portrait of the Knight lines 43—78 shows him to be the idealized Christian soldier who fought with valor and honor at most of the important late-fourteenth-century battles against heathens. We know less of his marital than of his martial life, but he does have a son who is with him on this pilgrimage. The Knight seems, all in all, an ideal teller for the long tale of war, romance, honor, and philosophy that Chaucer assigns to him.

Notes Part I Femenye line 8. A race of warlike women, led by Hypolita, who decided that they could live and protect themselves without the help of men. They are sometimes called Amazons, their land Scithia. Two forces that Palamon blames for the setbacks that Thebes has suffered. Saturn is the powerful planet. Juno is the jealous wife of Jupiter, who had made love to two Theban women. Part II Hereos Eros, a sickness associated with the intense emotion of falling in love. A kind of melancholy madness or mania brought on by the frustration of his love for an inaccessible woman.

In classical mythology, the jealous Juno had set the hundred-eyed Argus as guard to Io, who was a lover of her husband, Jupiter. Cadme and Amphioun Cadmus and Amphion are the legendary founders of the city of Thebes, home to Palamon and Arcite. The reference in this and the next lines is to the Thracian kingdom in which a hunter prepares himself at a mountain pass to meet a charging lion or bear.

Part III Citheroun Various literary, historical, and classical allusions, most of them demonstrating the follies and miseries associated with the snares of love. See also line below, where Saturn claims to have the power to send the plague. Julius, Nero, Antonius — Three famous rulers slaughtered in time of war—exemplary of the mayhem and death caused by mighty Mars. Two astrological references to Mars as cast by a complicated process called geomancy, a pseudoscience involving dots and lines.

Calistopee, Dane, Attheon, Atthalante, Meleagre — Various classical and legendary allusions to hunters or the hunted whose unfortunate tales are depicted on the walls of the temple of Diana, goddess of the hunt.

A griffin was in Greek mythology a fearsome beast with the head and wings of an eagle on the body of a lion. Palamon picks his hour of prayer carefully. The various planets were supposed to have special powers on certain hours of the day, hours in which it was particularly propitious to make prayers for their astrological influence.

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Venus would have had special strength on the twenty-third hour of Sunday night see line , when it was not yet two hours before dawn on Monday morning line In this system the time between dawn and dusk was divided equally into twelve hours, the time between dusk and the following dawn into twelve more. Except at the two equinoxes, when the daylight hours would have been exactly equal in length to the nighttime hours that is, sixty minutes , the daylight hours would have been longer or shorter than the hours of darkness, depending on the time of the year—thus the inequality.

Emily prays to Diana on the third inequal hour after Palamon prayed to Venus. Like Palamon, Emily picks her prayer time very carefully. Stace of Thebes Chaucer was often eager to claim an ancient source, not a contemporary one. While hunting, Acteon accidentally saw Diana while she was bathing. As suggested in lines —42 above, the goddess was imagined to have appeared in various forms.

The three referred to here are probably Luna, the moon in the heavens , the chaste Diana, the huntress on earth , and Proserpina, the reluctant wife of Pluto in the underworld. Part IV al that Monday Since Tuesday is the day when the influence of Mars is strongest, it would not have surprised a medieval audience that Arcite, who had prayed to Mars, wins the tournament. Probably a valley in another part of Greece, perhaps Gargaphia.

Probably Benmarin in Morocco but, like the previous name, perhaps just meant to be an exotic place where wild animals were rampant and dangerous. A fury was an avenging spirit usually confined to the underworld but released from time to time to influence the affairs of men, sometimes to see that justice was done.

This prime mover determines the number of years indi- vidual men and women get to live on earth and arranges things better for them than they could arrange them for themselves.

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This new translation beckons us to make our own pilgrimage back to the very wellsprings of literature in our language. It is the most approachable masterpiece of the medieval world, and Mr. The Broadview Canterbury Tales is an edition of the complete tales in a text based on the famous Ellesmere Manuscript.

Here one may read a Middle English text that is closer to what Chaucer's scribe, Adam Pinkhurst, actually wrote than that in any other modern edition. Unlike most editions, which draw on a number of manuscripts to recapture Chaucer's original intention, this edition preserves the text as it was found in one influential manuscript. A sampling of facsimile pages from the original manuscript is also included, along with a selection of other works that give the reader a rich sense of the cultural, political, and literary worlds in which Chaucer lived.

The second edition includes a new Middle English glossary, a timeline of Chaucer's life and times, and detailed page headers showing the fragment and line numbers to assist readers in finding a specific section of the poem.

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