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      Fragment I / Group A 
      
    The General Prologue 
    The Knight's Tale 
    The Miller's Prologue &
    Tale 
    The Reeve's Prologue & Tale 
    The Cook's Prologue & Tale 
      Fragment II / Group B1
       
      The Man of Law's
    Introduction, Prologue, Tale, & Epilogue 
       
      Fragment III /
    Group D 
      
    The Wife of Bath's
    Prologue & Tale 
    The Friar's Prologue & Tale 
    The Summoner's Prologue
    & Tale 
       
      Fragment IV /
    Group E 
      The
    Clerk's Prologue & Tale 
    The Merchant's Prologue,
    Tale, & Epilogue 
        
      Fragment V / Group F 
      The
    Squire's Introduction & Tale 
    The Franklin's Prologue
    & Tale 
     
      Fragment VI /
    Group C 
      The Physician's Tale 
    The Pardoner's Introduction,
    Prologue, & Tale 
     
      Fragment VII /
    Group B2 
      
    The Shipman's Tale 
    The Prioress's Prologue
    & Tale 
    The Prologue & Tale
    of Sir Thopas 
    The Tale of Melibee 
    The Monk's Prologue & Tale 
    The Nun's Priest's Prologue,  
    Tale, & Epilogue 
       
     
      Fragment VIII /
    Group G 
      The
    Second Nun's Prologue & Tale 
    The Canon's Yeoman's
    Prologue & Tale 
     
      Fragment IX /
    Group H  
      
    The Manciple's
    Prologue & Tale 
     
      Fragment X /
    Group I 
      
    The Parson's Prologue
    & Tale 
      The Retraction 
      
          
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    Sinan Kökbugur's hypertext, helpfully glossed Middle English edition at the Librarius Homepage 
     
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    available in a variety of formats 
     
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    The
    Friar's Tale 
    1.  In Middle English 
     
    The Friar's
    Prologue and the Friar's
    Tale at the UVa Electronic Text Center. 
    
      
    Read the
    Friar's Prologue and Tale in the context of Fragment
    III - Group D. 
     
    Read the Friar's
    Prologue and Tale according to the Hengwrt ms (Hg), one of the two most important
    early manuscripts, at the University of Toronto's Representative Poetry On-line
    site. The Ellesmere ms (El) is the other important early edition. 
    2.  In Modern English Translation 
    
     
      Scott
    Gettman's edition of the Canterbury
    Tales (Electronic Literature Foundation) is accessible by individual tale &
    available in a variety of formats:  Middle English, Modern English, Facing Page,
    & Interpolated - Glossed (frames; from unknown base text).  
      - Although unsuitable for formal research or college work, the
        ELF is the best online version for younger readers and those unfamiliar with Middle
        English. Easily navigable, and the Middle English glosses are very helpful.
 
     
     
    The Litrix Reading Room translation
    of the Canterbury Tales features rhyming couplets. 
     
    Sinan Kökbugur's helpfully glossed hypertext Middle English rendition of the complete Canterbury Tales is available at the Librarius page. Use the Table of
    Contents in the left frame to click on a specific Tale, and difficult terms and phrases
    are glossed in the lower frame.   
      Skip
    Knox's selection
    of Canterbury Tales in Modern English (Boise State) includes the Prologue to the
    Friar's Tale and the Friar's Tale
    (from an unknown base text). 
    3.  Historical & Cultural Backgrounds 
     
    The New Advent Catholic Website
    hosts a number of important resources, especially the online Catholic
    Encyclopedia (1913 ed.) and its thousands of entries. Although
    reflecting an earlier period of  scholarship, entries relevant to the
    Friar's Tale include: 
      
    4.  Sources, Analogues, & Related Texts 
    5.  Online Notes & Commentary 
     
    Discussion and links concerning the Friar's Prologue and Tale on
    Larry D. Benson's superlative Geoffrey
    Chaucer Page (Harvard). Includes e-texts of scholarly essays, sources and ancillary
    texts, and capsule discussions of key issues.  Some of the items related to the
    Friar's Tale include: 
        
      An
      online compilation of materials related to the Friar's Tale, including
      contrasting academic opinion illustrated by representative quotations, has
      been assembled by Gerald Richman (U of Suffolk). 
    6.  Online Books & Articles 
       
        
      A generous
      new online publishing venture: The
      University of California E-Scholarship Editions. "University of
      California Press now offers electronic versions of almost all of its
      journal titles and over 1400 books online, many of them out of print."
      E-journals are available to subscriber institutions; 400 full texts, many
      covering medieval topics, are available to the general public; the rest to
      members of the UC community. 
      
      Academic studies from the University of
      California Press related to the Friar's Tale include:  
      
       
    Mary F. Godfrey has written Only
    Words: Cursing and the Authority of Language in Chaucer's Friar's Tale,
    an e-print from Exemplaria.  
    7.  Student Projects & Essays 
     
    Anniina Jokkinen's Essays and Articles on Chaucer
    includes a number of sample student essays, of varying quality.  Like any other
    source, student essays must be evaluated rigorously, cited correctly, and  used
    responsibly. Jokkinen also compiles a number of resources by Canterbury
    Tale: The
    Friar's Tale 
    8.  Online Bibliography 
    9.  Syllabi & Course
    Descriptions 
      10.  Images & Multimedia 
      11.  Language Helps & Audio Files 
        
      Sample
    audio files (.wav, .au, .aiff) from the Friar's
    Tale, read by in 1990 by Alan T. Gaylord (Dartmouth) are available from the Chaucer
    Studio (Paul Thomas, Brigham Young). 
    12. Potpourri 
    13.  The
    Next Step  
     
      
    How to Document 
    Print & Electronic Sources: 
    The Chaucer Pedagogy 
    Documentation Primer 
     
    
    
    
     
      
      
      
      
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