Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. This stunning full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer series explores the complete text of The Franklin's Prologue and Tale through a wide range of classroom-tested activities and illustrated information, including a map of the Canterbury pilgrimage, a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words and suggestions for study. Cambridge School Chaucer makes medieval life and language more accessible, helping students appreciate Chaucer's brilliant characters, his wit, sense of irony and love of controversy.

 

This book is part of a book series called Cambridge School Chaucer .

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Cambridge University Press .

Geoffrey Chaucer , known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.

This book has the following chapters: Introduction; What are The Canterbury Tales?; Chaucer's language; The Franklin's contribution; Text and notes: The portrait of the Franklin (from The General Prologue); The Franklin's prologue; The Franklin's tale; Chaucer's pilgrims; Pilgrims and pilgrimages; Geoffrey Chaucer; Symbolism in The Franklin's Tale; Literary devices; The changing world of Chaucer's England; Gentillesse; Astronomy and astrology in The Franklin's Tale; Themes in The Franklin's Tale; Glossary of frequently used words