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

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 Oct. 22 Subject heading: Chaucer challenge

3 Contemporary Estates Satire
Mean Girls

4 Thinksheet Week 2 Due at the beginning of your section
Double-spaced, typed. ½ to one full page. No more than one page. Read through each of the following portraits carefully: The Monk (lines ) The Friar (lines ) The Clerk (lines ) The Parson (lines ) Pick ONE of these portraits and respond to the following about it: 1. Make a list of 3-5 important details in the pilgrim’s portrait. 2. What kind of details are these? Ironic? Serious? What is their effect? How do they work to create this effect? 3. How would you characterize the point of view of the narrator?

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

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7 Chaucer reading

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

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10 Canterbury Cathedral

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

12 Frame Tale The Host’s Proposal Sentence and Solaas
Dramatic feel of the CT

13 Chaucer’s Voicing Perspective and Point of View
Chaucer’s “disclaimer” l. 717 ff GP—8th edition, page 218 9th edition, page 243                                                                                    

14 Estates Satire The Three Estates Social Commentary

15 Three Estates

16 Selected Portraits The Knight l. 43 The Squire l. 79
The Prioress l. 118 The Sergeant of the Law l. 311 The Miller l. 547 The Summoner l. 625 The Parson l. 479

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18 Squire                                                

19 Prioress

20 Monk

21 Friar

22 Summoner

23 Pardoner

24 Clerk

25 Franklin

26 Cook

27 Shipman

28 Physician

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31 Parson (line 479)

32 Miller (line 547)


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