Chaucer Canterbury Tales

Spargo, J.W. "The Canon s Yeomans prologue and tale." In Sources and analogues of Chaucer s Canterbury Tales, eds. W.F. Bryan and G. Dempster, 658-698. New York London Humanities P Routledge Kegan Paul, 1958. 

Chaucer, Geoffrey. "The Canon s Yeoman s tale." In Canterbury tales, 465-490. Penguin, 1960. 

Chaucer, Geoffrey.The Canterbury tales a modem prose rendering. Translated by David Wright. London 1965 reprint,. ... 

Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) in his Canterbury Tales written between 1386-90, provided a portrait of the society of his times. Within this collection of stories, the Canon Yeoman s tale, gives us an insight into some of the ways in which alchemy was viewed at that time. Chaucer obviously had more than a superficial undertsanding of alchemy"... 

Chaucer, Geoffrey.The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and The Canon s Yeoman s Prologue and Tale. Edited by A.V.C. Schmidt. Edited by A.V.C. Schmidt. New York Holmes Meier, 1976. 

Fisher, Sheila. "Chaucer s poetic alchemy a study of value and its transformation in The Canterbury tales." PhD thesis, Yale University, Department of English Language and Literature, 1982. 

In one of the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer gave the name Placebo to a sycophantic character, and in another (The Parson s Tale) he wrote that Flatereres been the develes chapelleyns, that syngen evere placebo (flatterers are the Devil s chaplains, always singing Placebo).3... 

Chaucer, G. (1386). The Canterbury Tales (The Canon Yeoman s Tale). 

Not only with authorities who were concerned with the protection of the stability of state coinage and currency from the feared debasement by false gold, but with the cultivated classes quite generally the alchemists were held in evil repute. Dante (about 1300) in his Divina Corn-media pictures them in the tortures of the deepest regions of the Inferno Petrarch (in 1366) satirizes their deceptions and Chaucer in his Canterbury Tales (about 1388) voices the low estimate in which the alchemists were held. 

The pilgrims whose journey is followed in Geoffrey Chaucer s masterpiece The Canterbury Tales represent... 

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, trans. David Wright (Oxford Oxford University Press, 1985), 427-50, at 430. 

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales A Verse Translation, trans. 

It appeared, for example, in the "Canon s Yeoman s Tale" in Chaucer s Canterbury Tales. 

Alchemy appears in the Canterbury Tales in the Canon sYeoman s Tale , in which the yeoman relates the story of his master s futile quest for transmutation and subsequent swindling of a fellow priest. Given the detail of the story, it seems probable that Chaucer himself had studied alchemy, and may have even been a practitioner. His fi-iend John Gower may have also been involved... 

Chaucer, Geoffrey, The Canterbury Tales (Trans Nevill Coghill), London Penguin Books, 2003... 

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales in Great Books of the Western World. Volume 22. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., Chicago. 1952. Chekhov, Anton. The Three Sisters. Translated by Tyrone Guthrie and Leonid Kipnis. Bard Books, New York. 1965. 

Chaucer, G. 1957, The Canon s Yeoman s Prologue and Tale , in N. Coghill (ed.), Chaucer The Canterbury Tales, Penguin, Harmondsworth. 

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, in Benson, Riverside Chaucer, Book 7,11.1973-7-... 

People have been concerned with the health and appearance of their skin throughout history. Egyp>-tian physicians used arsenic applications to treat skin cancer and sandpaper to smooth scars. Queen Cleopatra was known for her cosmetic knowledge. Geoffrey Chaucer s The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400) and William Shakespeare s plays contain numerous references to unsightly skin afflictions, such as boils, carbuncles, and scabs. Not surprisingly, their... 

G. Chaucer, "The Canon s Yeoman s Tale," in Canterbury Tales, Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., Garden City, NY, 1934. 

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Tales of Canterbury. Ed. Robert Pratt. Boston Houghton, 1974. 

Pratt, RA. (Ed.) 1966. Selections from the Tales of Canterbury and Short Poems by Geofrrey Chaucer. Houghton-MifHin, Boston, MA. 

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