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”

7. Chaucer reading

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

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

18. Squire
                                               

19. Prioress

20. Monk

21. Friar

22. Summoner

23. Pardoner

24. Clerk

25. Franklin

26. Cook

27. Shipman

28. Physician

31. Parson (line 479)

32. Miller (line 547)