The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems: personaggi, cronologia e luoghi
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- Geoffrey ChaucerHe is a poet whose life includes royal service, marriage, imprisonment, and diplomatic missions.Prima comparsa: part 1
- The HostHe proposes the pilgrims’ storytelling contest and becomes its judge.Prima comparsa: part 2
- The KnightHe is the pilgrim whose drawn lot requires him to tell the first story.Prima comparsa: part 2
- The MillerHe is a drunken pilgrim who insists on telling a story about a deceived carpenter.Prima comparsa: part 4
- The ReeveHe objects when the Miller announces a story insulting husbands and wives.Prima comparsa: part 4
- NicholasHe is a scholar lodging with John who persuades Alison to have a secret affair.Prima comparsa: part 5
- AlisonShe is John’s wife and agrees to a secret affair with Nicholas.Prima comparsa: part 5
- The Wife of BathShe defends repeated marriage and describes gaining power over her five husbands.Prima comparsa: part 12
- The PardonerHe questions marriage after hearing the Wife and asks her to continue explaining her experience.Prima comparsa: part 12
- GriseldisShe is a poor young woman who tends sheep and cares for her father, Janicola.Prima comparsa: part 19
- The ParsonHe is a pilgrim who rebukes the Host for sinful swearing.Prima comparsa: part 33
- TroilusHe is a generous lover who falls for Cressida.Prima comparsa: part 58
- CressidaShe is a generous lover whom Pandarus persuades to return Troilus’s love.Prima comparsa: part 58
- PandarusHe is a friend who sacrifices honor to help Troilus and Cressida.Prima comparsa: part 58
- Part 2
The narrator joins the pilgrims, who accept the Host’s storytelling contest and choose him as judge.
- Part 3
Palamon and Arcite fall in love with Emily, turning their sworn friendship into rivalry.
- Part 11
Constance survives massacre, exile, and false accusations before reuniting with her husband and father.
- Part 12
The Wife of Bath defends repeated marriage and describes struggles for control over her husbands.
- Part 21
Walter reveals that both children remain alive, ending his cruel tests of Griselda.
- Part 28
A magician’s illusion appears to fulfill Dorigen’s promise, but Aurelius releases her from it.
- Part 32
The Pardoner admits preaching for profit and tells how greed destroys three companions seeking Death.
- Part 40
Prudence persuades Melibœus to forgive the enemies who attack her and their daughter.
- Part 44
Chanticleer falls for a fox’s flattery but escapes by making his captor speak.
- Part 47
The Canon’s Yeoman describes failed alchemy and recounts a canon’s trick against a priest.
- Part 51
The Parson explains penitence through sorrow, confession, and acts that make amends.
- Part 53
Philogenet enters Love’s court, swears obedience to its statutes, and courts Rosial.
- Part 55
Nature grants a female eagle a year to consider her competing suitors.
- Part 57
An eagle carries the dreamer toward a palace where earthly speech gathers and reputation becomes visible.
- Part 59
Troilus falls in love with Cressida, and Pandarus offers to help him.
- Part 61
Cressida accepts Troilus’s devotion, and Pandarus arranges their intimate union.
- Part 63
Cressida accepts Diomede instead of returning to Troilus, whom Achilles later kills in battle.
- Part 65
Alcestis wins the narrator’s pardon from Love and assigns him stories praising faithful women.
- Part 76
The speaker presents Moses’s burning bush as a sign of the Lady’s spotless maidenhood.
- Part 86
The speaker recalls Zechariah’s cleansing spring and asks Mary to show mercy to Adam’s descendants.
- Part 90
The speaker urges a prince to cherish his people, reject extortion, and respect the law.
- Part 98
The speaker rebukes Adam Scrivener because careless copying forces repeated corrections.
- Part 99
The speaker warns that religious neglect and unjust rule threaten Albion, then asks for divine help.
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- SouthwarkIt is where the pilgrims gather at the Tabard before their journey.Prima comparsa: part 2
- CanterburyIt is the destination of the pilgrims’ journey and storytelling contest.Prima comparsa: part 2
- TabardIt is the gathering place in Southwark where the narrator joins the pilgrims.Prima comparsa: part 2
- RomeIt is the city to which Constance returns after Alla’s death.Prima comparsa: part 11
- PaduaIt is where the Clerk says he learns his tale from Francesco Petrarch.Prima comparsa: part 18
- BolognaIt is where the marquis secretly sends his daughter to his sister.Prima comparsa: part 20
- SarraIt is where Cambuscan holds his grand birthday feast.Prima comparsa: part 25
- BrittanyIts coastal rocks frighten Dorigen while Arviragus is away in England.Prima comparsa: part 28
- TroyIt is the place Calchas leaves in the account introducing Troilus and Cressida.Prima comparsa: part 58
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