Lecture Goals

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

2. 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 November 1 (llampert@ucsd.edu) Subject heading: Chaucer challenge

3. Chaucer—social chameleon • Died in 1400. • Wrote in Middle English • A poet with a good day job • Master of irony • “Father of English Poetry”

5. Chaucer reading

6. The Canterbury Tales • Frame Tale—The General Prologue • Pilgrimage • First 18 lines • Spring fever • Virtuoso poetry

8. Canterbury Cathedral

9. The Canterbury Tales • Frame Tale—The General Prologue • Pilgrimage • First 18 lines • Spring fever • Virtuoso poetry

10. Frame Tale • The Host’s Proposal • Sentence and Solaas • Dramatic feel of the CT

11. Chaucer’s Voicing • Perspective and Point of View • Chaucer’s “disclaimer” l. 717 ff

12. Estates Satire • The Three Estates • Social Commentary

13. Three Estates

14. Selected Portraits • The Knight l. 43 • The Squire l. 79 • The Prioress l. 118 • The Summoner l. 625 • The Parson l. 479 • The Miller l. 547

16. Squire

17. Prioress

18. Monk

19. Friar

20. Summoner

21. Pardoner

22. Clerk

23. Franklin

24. Cook

25. Shipman

26. Physician

29. Parson (line 479)

30. Miller (line 547)

31. 1381 Rebellion—Wat Tyler