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

2. Contemporary Estates Satire Mean Girls

3. 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. 28 (llampert@ucsd.edu) Subject heading: Chaucer challengellampert@ucsd.edu

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 165-207) The Friar (lines 209-271) The Clerk (lines 287-310) The Parson (lines 480-530) 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. 1400. 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—9 th 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 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)

33. The Miller

34. MT:The Miller l. 547 p. 264 (9 th ) Miller Summoner Riding with Reeve and Pardoner Line 544 ff.

35. Summoner

36. The Miller’s Tale Follows the Knight’s Tale KT is a romance in high style Classical Allusion/Fate What is the reaction to the KT? Lines 1-5

37. “Quiting” The Miller “quites” the Knight –Absolon “quites” Nicholas –Estates Satire Chaucer’s “disclaimer” (GP, l. 745 ff) –Peasant’s Rebellion 1381 Whan Adam delved and Eve span, –Who was then the gentleman?

38. 1381 Rebellion—Wat Tyler

39. Genre vs. Genre Romance (Knight’s Tale) Fabliau (Miller’s Tale)

40. Cast of Characters A. Carpenter l. 80 ff B. “hende” Nicholas l. 91 ff C. Alison l. 112 ff D. Absolon l. 204 ff

41. The Seduction l. 163 ff Physical and direct Parody of Courtly Love

42. The Plot with the Tubs

43. Absolon at the window Woos Alison with “courtly” language l. 590 ff Comedy emphasized through meter—line 639

44. No man his reson herde Morality in the fabliaux? How can we understand this genre?

45. How does this tale “quit” the KT? Emily and Alison –Line 632 “Teehee” vs. –Emily’s plea for Virginity

46. Quitting the KT Treatment of courtliness/courtly love Treatment of chivalry—the tub plot