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Chaucer’s Tale of Sir Thopas
Literature; Short stories
Chaucer’s Tale of Sir Thopas is the seventeenth tale in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. It is a short tale and tells the story of Sir Thopas who rides about looking for an elf-queen to marry until he ...
The Shipman’s Tale
Literature; Short stories
The Shipman’s Tale is the fifteenth tale in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. The tale tells the story of a monk who tricks a merchant’s wife into having sex with him by borrowing money from the ...
The Pardoner’s Tale
Literature; Short stories
The Pardoner’s Tale is the fourteenth tale in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. In the tale three youths look for Death, thinking they can kill him. An old man tells them they can find Death under a ...
The Physician’s Tale
Literature; Short stories
The Physician’s Tale is the thirteenth tale in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. In the tale, a judge, Appius, lusts after the daughter of Virginius. He persuades a man called Claudius to declare her ...
The Franklin’s Tale
Literature; Short stories
The Franklin’s Tale is the twelfth tale in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. A woman in ancient Brittany is waiting for the return of her husband from England, but worried that he may crash on the ...
The Squire’s Tale
Literature; Short stories
The Squire’s Tale is the eleventh tale in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. In the tale it is the birthday of the King of the Mongol Empire and he and his daughter are given a magic brass horse, a ...
The Merchant’s Tale
Literature; Short stories
The Merchant’s Tale is the tenth tale in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. In the tale, an old knight named January marries May, a beautiful young woman. Due to his age, she plans on cheating on him ...
