文档介绍：Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) —“Father of English literature/poetry” 乔叟——英国诗歌之父
Teaching Aims:
1.         Introduce students to the writer
2.         Familiarize students with ideas of the work and the language the writer used
3.         Give them some knowledge of English metrics
1.         characters of the work;
2.         artistic features;
3.         Chaucer’s English;
4.         English Metrics
Key Points to Teach:
——father of English poetry )
Wine merchant’s family, rub elbows with people from different walks of life.(refer to North-East Normal University; lecture notes for presentation)
I. Chaucer’s His Life (1340—1400)
II. His works / writing periods of career
1.       French period (1360’s —1372)
1) The Book of the Duchess (1369—70)
2)  The Romaunt of the Rose
1.    Influenced by Dante, Petrarch, io
The House of Fame (1372—80)
Legend of Good Women (1380—86)
2.       English period (1387—1400)
2. Italian period (1372—1385)
III. The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400)
It is a pilgrimage scene from a stained glass window in Canterbury Cathedral.
1.       The plan of the book
29/30 pilgrims in Tabard Inn in spring,
Two stories each on the way out and two on the way back, but only 24 tales finished (including 4 fragmentary plete tales)
2. General Prologue
1)  general framework
a group of vivid sketches of medieval figures from different walks of life (except the highest and lowest)
3. Characters (depicted with satire and humor)
Knight, squire, prioress, landed proprietor, wealthy tradesman, drunk cook, humble plowman, doctor, lawyer, monks of different orders, nuns, priests, a summoner, 5 husbands and lovers, a sailor, a miller, a carpenter, a yeoman, an oxford scholar, wife of Bath (most interesting), well-to-do independent, control over man
The Knight's Tale
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