the canterbury tales Chaucer课件.ppt

Geoffrey Chaucer;1 About the writer;1.1Chaucer and the Royal Family;1.2Chaucer and the French Invasion;1.3Marriage;1.4;2 The first important realistic writer;3 “Father” of English poetry;;Chaucer’s Plan ...;London;Canterbury Cathedral;But why do pilgrims go to Canterbury?;Answer: Religion;里搅仲粮聂好筏尿吏唤贫消蔚呈鼓柔泣盂顾线寒填宿困镣糜沮瞬甭晴宁爱the canterbury tales Chaucer课件the canterbury tales Chaucer课件; ;(1)The language of The Canterbury Tales Prologue -- Middle English -- is closer to Old English, the language of the Anglo-Saxons, and Norman French (2)Chaucer’s work consists of three parts The General Prologue; 24 tales, four of which left unfinished; Separate prologues to each tale with links, comments, and quarrels in between ;(3) The idea of a frame story (story within a story) comes from a long tradition: The Arabian Nights and The Decameron. Chaucer read The Decameron when he visited Italy. ;Written sometime in the 1380s, The Canterbury Tales -- the first selection of short stories in English -- is about a group of pilgrims who agree to tell stories while they travel together to Canterbury, the seat of the English Church (still Catholic) and the site of the shrine dedicated to Thomas a Beckett, who was martyred for his faith. ;The Canterbury Tales is a cross section of medieval society: Chaucer‘s interest in middle class characters, including a Knight, Squire(乡绅）, Yeoman(自耕农）, Prioress, Monk, Friar, Merchant, Clerk, Man of Law, Franklin, Haberdasher, Carpenter, Weaver, Dyer, Cook, Shipman, Physician, Wife, Parson, Plowman, Miller,, and Host.. reflects the rise of the middle class in the 14th century. Subject matter: sex, lust, greed, jealousy, native cunning (tricksters), the credulousness(轻信） of the stupid, marital problems, infidelity, corruption of the church. ;The General Prologue;(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages),Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry l