The Host of the Tabard Inn sets the rules for the tales.
These included members of the First Estate, or Church hierarchy, like The Prioress, Monk, Friar, Parson, and Pardoner. In this collection, Chaucer who doubles up as the narrator tells the stories of a group of pilgrims who are travelling to Canterbury (Johnston. gentle mariner! He kids the Parson about being too much a prude. Now The Host was always there for his guests, making sure they were comfortable and getting whatever. Chaucer himself is Narrator of the Canterbury Tales and considers himself as a character in his own book. now pass we over and seek who of all this rout shall tell Ans. The Host in The Canterbury Tales proposes a story telling competition for the long journey to Canterbury. The person who tells the best story will be rewarded with a sumptuous dinner paid for by the other members of the party. Answered by mark s #74467 on 12:14 PM will ye vouchsafe, my lady dear?" Aha! "No more of this, good sir! Ans. The Host decides to accompany the pilgrims to Canterbury and serve as the judge of the tales. Being a joyful and communicative man, he turns out to be the life of the party. The Host also calms differences such as the arguments between the Miller and the Reeve or between the Friar and the Summoner. God give this monk a thousand cartloads of bad years! The Prioress is described as a very large woman with a forehead the width of an outstretched hand, making this scenario extremely plausible. Argues that Chaucer presages the Host's selection of Nun's Priest's Tale as the winner of the tale-telling contest. The monk is asked to tell the second Tale. He's the supposed originator of the very concept of the Tales, encouraging the pilgrims to compete for the prize of a dinner at his Southwark tavern, the Tabard. The Host (Canterbury Tales) The Host, also known as Harry Bailey, is the innkeeper and the tour guide featured in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Afterwards the Host suggests the tale-telling contest which is then accepted by the pilgrims (lines 720-821).
TAVERN KEEPER PARDONERS TALE PILGRIM SERIES
After an introduction in lines 1-34, the narrator begins the series of portraits (lines 35-719). you will be ahead in your future studies. The importance of these tales and knowing all about them is that this is the foundation that actually began English literature, and if you know about Chaucer. My character is important because this was the time period that people started traveling around and moving a lot more often. John, a north country student If you like this, you’ll like these too.False (Chaucer MCQ's) Q. Show Off Simkin the miller (portrayed by The Miller) Harry Bailey, Host of The Tabard Inn, SouthwarkĪ yeoman, later revealed as a fiend of HellĪ tavern keeper (portrayed by Harry Bailey)Īlison, the carpenter’s beautiful young wife
TAVERN KEEPER PARDONERS TALE PILGRIM PLUS
The six tales included are: The Nun’s Priest’s tale of Chanticleer and The Fox The Wife of Bath’s tale – enchantment, chivalric love, and the nature of faith and honour The Friar’s tale – a grim and chilling story of ill-deeds and grisly supernatural revenge The Pardoner’s tale – how three robbers, each trying to double-cross the others, all end up falling fatally foul of their own treachery The Miller’s tale – about a very old man, his very young wife and her admirers, and a case of mistaken identity involving a bare bottom and a red hot poker and The Reeve’s tale – the uproarious and farcical tale of Show-off Simkin, his buxom daughter, well-preserved wife, and the two lusty students whom he very ungraciously allows to stay in his house one night…Ĭast: Principals 7M 1F, plus an ensemble cast taking a further 30 or so cameo and extra roles. The whole play is framed within the context of the Pilgrims’ journey from Southwark to Canterbury, with linking and narration between each tale provided by Chaucer himself, and of course, prototypical genial host, Harry Bailey. These stories convey the gritty reality of life in Medieval England, combining into one boisterous and hilarious portrait of ordinary folk preoccupied with petty jealousies, mundane squabbles, and simple pleasures – all conveying really how little the English people have changed during 600 intervening years. Six of the best, bawdiest, and most accessible of Chaucer’s famous tales are included in this dramatic adaptation, originally produced in the open air with an ensemble cast to a great critical reception. There’s nothing quite like The Canterbury Tales to put the present-day observer in touch with the ordinary lives of our medieval forbearers. (Based on the OUP translation from Middle English by David Wright) Six of the best, funniest, and bawdiest of Chaucer’s tales.