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Fragment I / Group A
The General Prologue
The Knight's Tale
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Tale
The Reeve's Prologue & Tale
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Fragment II / Group B1
The Man of Law's
Introduction, Prologue, Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment III /
Group D
The Wife of Bath's
Prologue & Tale
The Friar's Prologue & Tale
The Summoner's Prologue
& Tale
Fragment IV /
Group E
The
Clerk's Prologue & Tale
The Merchant's Prologue,
Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment V / Group F
The
Squire's Introduction & Tale
The Franklin's Prologue
& Tale
Fragment VI /
Group C
The Physician's Tale
The Pardoner's Introduction,
Prologue, & Tale
Fragment VII /
Group B2
The Shipman's Tale
The Prioress's Prologue
& Tale
The Prologue & Tale
of Sir Thopas
The Tale of Melibee
The Monk's Prologue & Tale
The Nun's Priest's Prologue,
Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment VIII /
Group G
The
Second Nun's Prologue & Tale
The Canon's Yeoman's
Prologue & Tale
Fragment IX /
Group H
The Manciple's
Prologue & Tale
Fragment X /
Group I
The Parson's Prologue
& Tale
The Retraction
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The
Parson's Tale
1. In Middle English
The Parson's
Prologue and Parson's
Tale at the UVa Electronic Text Center
Read the
Pardoner's Prologue and Tale in the context of Fragment
X - Group I
Chaucer's
Retraction
at the UVa Electronic Text Center
2. In Modern English Translation
Scott
Gettman's edition of the Canterbury
Tales (Electronic Literature Foundation) is accessible by individual tale &
available in a variety of formats: Middle English, Modern English, Facing Page,
& Interpolated - Glossed (frames; from unknown base text).
- Although unsuitable for formal research or college work, the
ELF is the best online version for younger readers and those unfamiliar with Middle
English. Easily navigable, and the Middle English glosses are very helpful.
The Litrix Reading Room translation
of the Canterbury Tales features rhyming couplets.
Sinan Kökbugur's helpfully glossed hypertext Middle English rendition of the complete Canterbury Tales is available at the Librarius page. Use the Table of
Contents in the left frame to click on a specific Tale, and difficult terms and phrases
are glossed in the lower frame.
3. Historical & Cultural Backgrounds
The followers of John Wycliffe, called Lollards, were an important
group during the later 14th century and their doctrines seem to have some intersection
with Chaucer's Parson.
The New Advent Catholic Website hosts a number of
important resources, especially the online Catholic
Encyclopedia (1913 ed.) and its thousands of entries. Although
reflecting an earlier period of scholarship, entries relevant
to the Parson's Tale include:
4. Sources, Analogues, & Related Texts
The Parson's brother, the Plowman (see General Prologue) would have been
affected by the 1349 Ordinance of Laborers
and the 1351 Statute
of Laborers, designed to regulate wages and labor after the first wave of the Black
Death in 1348.
5. Online Notes & Commentary
L. Kip Wheeler offers a
nice overview of The
Seven Deadly Sins and the Seven Holy Virtues (Carson Newman College.
The ParT is organized around the Seven Deadly Sins.
Discussion and links concerning the Parson's Prologue and Tale (link not active) on Larry
D. Benson's superlative Geoffrey Chaucer
Page (Harvard). Includes e-texts of scholarly essays, sources and ancillary texts, and
capsule discussions of key issues. Some of the items related to the Parson's Tale include:
6. Online Essays & Books
7. Student Projects & Essays
Anniina Jokkinen's Essays and Articles on Chaucer
includes a number of sample student essays, of varying quality. Like any other
source, student essays must be evaluated rigorously, cited correctly, and used
responsibly. Jokkinen also compiles a number of resources by
Canterbury Tale: The
Parson's Tale
Dene
Scoggins' English 316 site
(UT Austin) explores "culture, ideology, and issues of canonicity" in the
Canterbury Tales, including a student developed page devoted to the Parson's Tale.
In the Man of Law's endlink, the Host accuses the Parson of being a
"lollar" and Derrick Pitard's Lollard
Society Homepage offers a number of interesting links to resources related to this
late-medieval social and religious movement. See especially:
8. Online Bibliography
9. Syllabi & Course
Descriptions
10. Images & Multimedia
11. Language Helps & Audio Files
12. Potpourri
13. The
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