Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer

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Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer

• The Prologue
• -review-

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See how few hints you need.

• He is a brawler
• He likes to tell dirty stories
• He steals grain from his clients
• He is big and brutish enough to knock down doors
  with his head
• MILLER

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• He looks like Santa Claus
• He is a foodie
• It positively snows food at his house where he
  frequently throws large impressive parties
• He is a landowner
• He get his money acting as a judge and sheriff
  (Corrupt)
• FRANKLIN

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• He is the Parsons brother
• He is of the lowest class
• He gives as much as he can to charity
• He is a hard worker and good neighbor
• PLOWMAN

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• This character is obsessed with good grooming
• This character is good at singing, riding a
  horse, and writing poetry
• This character is motivated by impressing women
• He is the knights son
• SQUIRE

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• He dislikes reading or staying indoors
• He loves to hunt
• He owns many fine horses
• He likes food
• He has expensive clothes
• He is a member of the clergy held up for ridicule
  He should be inside studying
• MONK

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• He looks wealthy with his multicolored clothing
• He is actually in debt
• He hides his lack of wealth
• He is concerned about piracy
• MERCHANT

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• This character is well dressed with silver finery
• This character has a social climbing wife
• The wife wants to be treated like a queen
• This character is a member of the middle class
• GUILDSMEN (HABERDASHER, DYER, CARPENTER, WEAVER,
  CARPET MAKER)

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• He is good at his job
• He is part of the nobility
• His clothes are covered with travel grime
• His son is with him
• He may be too aggressive even though he is a
  warrior
• KNIGHT

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• He is an excellent beggar
• He is jovial
• He is a member of the clergy who takes bribes at
  confession
• He is slick with women, marrying them off when
  they become troublesome
• He is well know in the local bars
• Hubert
• He is wealthy, but looks poor when he is begging
• FRIAR

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• He is very poor
• He pays his friends back by praying for them
• He doesnt want a job
• He loves books
• OXFORD CLERIC

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• Although he is uneducated, he is very good at
  finding bargains
• He purchases food for a college (somewhat like a
  caterer)
• He buys at a great savings and passes on a
  minimal savings to his bosses
• He is well liked by his clients even though he
  short changes them
• MANCIPLE

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• He has no conscience
• He is well traveled
• He steals wine, a horse, a ship
• He has killed by making others walk the plank
• SKIPPER

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• This character is dressed like Robin Hood
• This character carries the knights weapons
• This character is in charge of keeping the
  knights weaponry in good working order
• This character seems to do a good job
• YEOMAN

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• This character seems like an astrologist
• This character is well dressed
• This character loves gold, but spends little
• This character has an arrangement with druggists
  he receives money for sending patients to the
  apothecary for prescriptions they dont need
• DOCTOR

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• This character is deaf
• This character has married five times
• This character is known for weaving
• This character loves to give advice on love
• This character is wealthy and well traveled
• She has a temper
• WIFE OF BATH

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• He is a member of the clergy who practiced what
  he preached (lead by example)
• He is poor
• He is a terrible beggar
• Chaucer seems to admire this member of the clergy
  
• PARSON

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• He is a member of the middle class who is good at
  his job
• People feel comfortable in his establishment
• He comes up with the storytelling game
• HOST

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• He is so ugly that children run in fear
• He knows everyones secrets
• He is a member of the clergy who could be bribed
  into not doing his job (take people to religious
  court)
• He is a drunk who swears in Latin
• He is odiferous and has a number of ugly pimples
• SUMMONER

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• The lords farmers/workers fear him
• He is an estate manager
• The is thin, old, and poor looking
• He uses the lords money to buy expensive items
  which he then loaned to the lord earning the
  lords thanks and gratuities
• REEVE

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• This character is VERY interested in courtly life
• This character speaks French (nasally)
• This character has small dogs she spoils
• She is well fed
• She wears a pin claiming Love Conquers All
• She wears expensive clothing
• She is a corrupt member of the clergy
• PRIORESS

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• This character appears to be VERY busy
• He is not as busy as he appears (self-important)
• He is sought after everyone wants to hire him
• He knows the law really well
• SERGEANT AT LAW

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• He is the Summoners friend
• He a money hungry member of the clergy who sells
  fake relics to poor uneducated country folks
• He likes to sing
• He is a gelding or a mare
• PARDONER

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• He can identify ale by flavor
• He is good at his job
• He has an unappetizing ulcer on his knee
• His sauces are the best
• COOK

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Finis