Chaucer VI 6V2 260124

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Welcome!

Road Map

• Reading list 
• The Miller's Tale
• The Reeve's Tale ?

Test on Chaucer on 13  February 

Reading list 

Please hand in your definitive reading list on or before 16 Feb 2024. 

When you have my approval for your RL, you can plan your oral exam. 

Lesson goal

At the end of this class you:

• can describe the character of the Miller
• indicate that you understand Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale' 
• can link the tale to its context
• indicate that you know what a fabliau is

The Miller

p. 20

The Miller

• negative social stereotype

• 'all brawn, no brain'

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Context

Social class

Courtly love 

Morality  

The Miller's Tale

Battle with the Reeve

Fabliau: 

• a brief tale
• style:  simple, straighforward
• tense: present
• setting: real and familiar
• ordinary people
• involve incredible degrees of gullibility in the victims and of ingenuity and sexual appetite in the trickster-heroes and -heroines."

Characters

1. John

2. Allison

3. Nicholas

4. Absolon

Who are they and what are their roles in the story?

Courtly love

A highly conventionalized medieval tradition of love between a knight and a married noblewoman, first developed by the troubadours of Southern France and extensively employed in European literature of the time. The love of the knight for his lady was regarded as an ennobling passion and the relationship was typically unconsummated.

Oxford Reference (2024)

Lesson goal

At the end of this class you:

• can describe the character of the Miller
• indicate that you understand Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale' 
• can link the tale to its context
• indicate that you know what a fabliau is

Do

Read the Reeve's Tale 

pp. 12 to 16

Focus: 

Who is the Reeve?

Who are the characters in his tale and what do they do?