Aspects of Literature

Any attempt to provide a complete literary analysis of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in 1,000 words or so is doomed to failure. The book...

In his Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400) explains that April is the month when people get the idea of ...

Prologues and introductions to works of literature are often paid very little attention, frequently being skipped so that the reader ...

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer end on a rather strange note, namely 350 words (or thereabouts) under the heading “Heere tak...

The Parson’s Tale has to be the least approachable of all the Canterbury Tales, with the possible exception of Chaucer’s Tale of Meli...

A medieval manciple was in effect the quartermaster of an Inn of Court, responsible for buying and looking after the food supplies fo...

The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale is one of the Canterbury Tales told by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340 – 1400). As with many of the tales in the c...

There are several characters among the pilgrims who feature in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales of whom we know virtually nothing before th...

The Nun’s Priest is one of the pilgrims in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales of whom we know virtually nothing before he tells his tale. In ...