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Lecture Goals

Explore Chaucer's Canterbury Tales through the General Prologue, discussion of estates satire, and analysis of selected portraits. Optional Chaucer challenge to write your own Prologue set at UCSD. Extra credit available.

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Lecture Goals

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  1. Lecture Goals • General Prologue Portraits Discussion of Estates Satire and Chaucer’s voicing Miller’s Prologue and Tale preview

  2. Chaucer Challenge • Optional contest – extra credit toward course participation grade • Write your own General Prologue—set at UCSD • E-Submit to Prof. Lampert-Weissig by 5 pm November 1 (llampert@ucsd.edu) Subject heading: Chaucer challenge

  3. Chaucer—social chameleon • Died in 1400. • Wrote in Middle English • A poet with a good day job • Master of irony • “Father of English Poetry”

  4. Chaucer reading

  5. The Canterbury Tales • Frame Tale—The General Prologue • Pilgrimage • First 18 lines • Spring fever • Virtuoso poetry

  6. Canterbury Cathedral

  7. The Canterbury Tales • Frame Tale—The General Prologue • Pilgrimage • First 18 lines • Spring fever • Virtuoso poetry

  8. Frame Tale • The Host’s Proposal • Sentence and Solaas • Dramatic feel of the CT

  9. Chaucer’s Voicing • Perspective and Point of View • Chaucer’s “disclaimer” l. 717 ff

  10. Estates Satire • The Three Estates • Social Commentary

  11. Three Estates

  12. Selected Portraits • The Knight l. 43 • The Squire l. 79 • The Prioress l. 118 • The Summoner l. 625 • The Parson l. 479 • The Miller l. 547

  13. Squire

  14. Prioress

  15. Monk

  16. Friar

  17. Summoner

  18. Pardoner

  19. Clerk

  20. Franklin

  21. Cook

  22. Shipman

  23. Physician

  24. Parson (line 479)

  25. Miller (line 547)

  26. 1381 Rebellion—Wat Tyler

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