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Thopas (Chaucer) Side by side
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Thopas"
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looks down at his
shoes and then
tells his tale, the tale of Sir
Thopas. In the story,
Thopas is a
gallant knight from
Flanders who one day gets an erection...
- Canon, and the
fictive Geoffrey Chaucer, the
teller of the tale of Sir
Thopas (who
might be
considered distinct from the
Chaucerian narrator, who is in...
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Harry Bailly and
reprimanded for the poor
quality of his
first story, Sir
Thopas,
which was
compared to a ****,
Chaucer launches into one of the longest...
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parody of tail-line
romance in his
Canterbury Tale of Sir
Thopas, has the hero Sir
Thopas begin a
fight with a
giant in
order to try to
reach an elf-queen...
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meter throughout almost all of his tales, with the
exception of Sir
Thopas and his
prose tales. This is a line
characterised by five
stressed syllables...
- also
explored the
artful possibilities of doggerel. Chaucer's Tale of Sir
Thopas is
written in this format. It
irritates the Host of The
Tabard so much that...
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Thopas The Tale of
Melibee The Monk's Tale The Nun's Priest's Tale The
Second Nun's...
- form vitteas, and its
usage in line 709 of
Geoffrey Chaucer's tale of "Sir
Thopas" has
attracted particular commentary,
since here the poem's
narrator (a...
- the
Kinge of Fraunce. In
Geoffrey Chaucer's The
Canterbury Tales, "Sir
Thopas" (supposed to be told by
Chaucer himself on the pilgrimage) is a parody...
