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It is unfinished, because it is interrupted by the next story-teller, the <a href="/wiki/The_Franklin%27s_Tale" title="The Franklin's Tale">Franklin</a>, who then continues with his own prologue and tale. <a href="/wiki/The_Squire_(Canterbury_Tales)" title="The Squire (Canterbury Tales)">The Squire</a> is the <a href="/wiki/The_Knight%27s_Tale" title="The Knight's Tale">Knight</a>'s son, a novice warrior and lover with more enthusiasm than experience. His tale is an epic <a href="/wiki/Romance_(heroic_literature)" class="mw-redirect" title="Romance (heroic literature)">romance</a>, which, if completed, would probably have been longer than rest of the <i>Tales</i> combined. It contains many literary allusions and vivid descriptions. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Squire_-_Ellesmere_Chaucer.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/The_Squire_-_Ellesmere_Chaucer.jpg/220px-The_Squire_-_Ellesmere_Chaucer.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="312" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/The_Squire_-_Ellesmere_Chaucer.jpg/330px-The_Squire_-_Ellesmere_Chaucer.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/The_Squire_-_Ellesmere_Chaucer.jpg/440px-The_Squire_-_Ellesmere_Chaucer.jpg 2x" data-file-width="473" data-file-height="671" /></a><figcaption>The Squire's Tale</figcaption></figure> <p>The original source of the tale remains unknown.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to some critics the source of the tale is <i>The Arabian Nights</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Squire%27s_Tale&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Genghis_Khan" title="Genghis Khan">Genghis Khan</a> ("Cambyuskan" in Chaucer's version) leads the <a href="/wiki/Mongol_Empire" title="Mongol Empire">Mongol Empire</a> with two sons, Algarsyf and Cambalo, and a daughter, Canace. At the twentieth anniversary of his reign, he holds a feast, and a strange <a href="/wiki/Knight" title="Knight">knight</a> sent from "the kyng of <a href="/wiki/Arabia" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabia">Arabe</a> and of <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">Inde</a>"<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> approaches him bearing gifts, a motif common in <a href="/wiki/King_Arthur" title="King Arthur">Arthurian</a> legends. These are a <a href="/wiki/Brass" title="Brass">brass</a> <a href="/wiki/Horse" title="Horse">horse</a> with the power of <a href="/wiki/Teleportation" title="Teleportation">teleportation</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Mirror" title="Mirror">mirror</a> which can reveal the minds of the king's friends and enemies, a ring which confers understanding of the language of birds (as some legends say King <a href="/wiki/Solomon" title="Solomon">Solomon</a> owned), and a sword which deals deadly wounds that only its touch can heal again (both the spear of <a href="/wiki/Achilles" title="Achilles">Achilles</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Lance" title="Holy Lance">Holy Lance</a> have these powers). After much learned talk of the gifts, digressing into <a href="/wiki/Astrology" title="Astrology">astrology</a>, the first part of the tale ends. </p><p>A subplot of the tale deals with Canace and her ring. Eagerly rising the next morning, she goes on a walk and discovers a grieving <a href="/wiki/Falcon" title="Falcon">falcon</a>. The falcon tells Canace that she has been abandoned by her false lover, a tercelet (male hawk), who left her for a kite. (In medieval <a href="/wiki/Falconry" title="Falconry">falconry</a>, kites were birds of low status.) Canace heals the bird and builds a mew, or coop for it, which is painted on the outside blue for true faith within and green for falsity, and with pictures of deceitful birds. (This description of deceitful birds is similar to the images painted on the garden walls in the <i><a href="/wiki/Romance_of_the_Rose" class="mw-redirect" title="Romance of the Rose">Romance of the Rose</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) </p><p>The second part ends with a promise of more to come involving Genghis Khan's sons and the quest of Cambalo to win Canace as his wife. When the Squire briefly describes the third part of the story that he is about to tell, there is a hint that in it Canace and her brothers will commit incest,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as happens in <a href="/wiki/John_Gower" title="John Gower">John Gower</a>'s version of the story.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, it is unlikely that Chaucer intended to finish the tale. Instead the <a href="/wiki/The_Franklin%27s_Tale" title="The Franklin's Tale">Franklin</a> breaks into the beginning of the third section with elaborate praise of the Squire's gentility—the Franklin being something of a social climber—and proceeds to his own tale. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criticism_and_continuations">Criticism and continuations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Squire%27s_Tale&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Criticism and continuations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Early critics were admiring of the Squire's tale. <a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a> was convinced that Chaucer had intended to conclude it. Authors of the Elizabethan period, including <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser">Edmund Spenser</a>, used characters from the tale in their own works; some, like <a href="/wiki/John_Lane_(poet)" title="John Lane (poet)">John Lane</a>, wrote complete continuations of it.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In general, modern critics have not paid it much attention, and consider it Chaucer's way of poking gentle fun at the young Squire's love of romance literature, which frequently contains somewhat pretentious digressions, and his lack of narrative self-control. Compared to the tale told by his father, the Knight, which is formal, serious, and complete, the rambling and fantastical story shows the Squire's inexperience. Some critics see the gifts as symbolic of the powers of poetry, which the Squire is still learning to use. </p><p>There is no clear source for the story, which is a collection of ideas and themes from many romances, as befits the Squire, a lover of such literature. The extravagant details on Eastern kingdoms come from the <a href="/wiki/Travel_literature" title="Travel literature">travel literature</a> of the time, such as <a href="/wiki/Giovanni_da_Pian_del_Carpine" title="Giovanni da Pian del Carpine">Giovanni da Pian del Carpine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Simon_of_St_Quentin" class="mw-redirect" title="Simon of St Quentin">Simon of St Quentin</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Mandeville" class="mw-redirect" title="John Mandeville">John Mandeville</a>. The episode of the falcon and the tercelet is similar to part of <i><a href="/wiki/Anelida_and_Arcite" title="Anelida and Arcite">Anelida and Arcite</a></i>, an early work of Chaucer's. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes_and_references">Notes and references</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Squire%27s_Tale&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Notes and references"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/chaucer/SqT.html">Michael Delahoyde, Washington State University</a>. Accessed 14 October 2015</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Narayan Gangopadhyay Rachanabali, volume 11, page 357</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFChaucer2008" class="citation book cs1">Chaucer, Geoffrey (2008). <i>The Riverside Chaucer</i> (Third ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 170. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-955209-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-955209-2"><bdi>978-0-19-955209-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Riverside+Chaucer&rft.pages=170&rft.edition=Third&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0-19-955209-2&rft.aulast=Chaucer&rft.aufirst=Geoffrey&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Squire%27s+Tale" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDonald_Roy_Howard1978" class="citation book cs1">Donald Roy Howard (1978). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/ideaofcanterbury00howa/page/267"><i>The Idea of the Canterbury Tales</i></a></span>. 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title="The Summoner's Tale">The Summoner's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Clerk%27s_Tale" title="The Clerk's Tale">The Clerk's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Merchant%27s_Tale" title="The Merchant's Tale">The Merchant's Tale</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The Squire's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Franklin%27s_Tale" title="The Franklin's Tale">The Franklin's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Physician%27s_Tale" title="The Physician's Tale">The Physician's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Pardoner%27s_Tale" title="The Pardoner's Tale">The Pardoner's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Shipman%27s_Tale" title="The Shipman's Tale">The Shipman's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Prioress%27s_Tale" title="The Prioress's Tale">The Prioress's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Thopas" title="Sir Thopas">Sir Thopas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Tale_of_Melibee" title="The Tale of Melibee">The Tale of Melibee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Monk%27s_Tale" title="The Monk's Tale">The Monk's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Nun%27s_Priest%27s_Tale" title="The Nun's Priest's Tale">The Nun's Priest's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Second_Nun%27s_Tale" title="The Second Nun's Tale">The Second Nun's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Canon%27s_Yeoman%27s_Tale" title="The Canon's Yeoman's Tale">The Canon's Yeoman's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Manciple%27s_Tale" title="The Manciple's Tale">The Manciple's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Parson%27s_Tale" title="The Parson's Tale">The Parson's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chaucer%27s_Retraction" title="Chaucer's Retraction">Chaucer's Retraction</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other works</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Romaunt_of_the_Rose" title="The Romaunt of the Rose">The Romaunt of the Rose</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Duchess" title="The Book of the Duchess">The Book of the Duchess</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_House_of_Fame" title="The House of Fame">The House of Fame</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Anelida_and_Arcite" title="Anelida and Arcite">Anelida and Arcite</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Parlement_of_Foules" title="Parlement of Foules">The Parliament of Fowls</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Boece_(Chaucer)" title="Boece (Chaucer)">Boece</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Troilus_and_Criseyde" title="Troilus and Criseyde">Troilus and Criseyde</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Legend_of_Good_Women" title="The Legend of Good Women">The Legend of Good Women</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Treatise_on_the_Astrolabe" title="A Treatise on the Astrolabe">A Treatise on the Astrolabe</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Complaint_of_Mars" title="The Complaint of Mars">The Complaint of Mars</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Spurious</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/John_Clanvowe#Works" title="John Clanvowe">The Cuckoo and the Nightingale</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Complaint_of_the_Black_Knight" title="The Complaint of the Black Knight">The Complaint of the Black Knight</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_equatorie_of_the_planetis" class="mw-redirect" title="The equatorie of the planetis">The equatorie of the planetis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Floure_and_the_Leafe" title="The Floure and the Leafe">The Floure and the Leafe</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pierce_the_Ploughman%27s_Crede" title="Pierce the Ploughman's Crede">Pierce the Ploughman's Crede</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jack_Upland" title="Jack Upland">Jack Upland</a></i></li></ul> <p><b>Tales</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Tale_of_Gamelyn" title="The Tale of Gamelyn">The Tale of Gamelyn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prologue_and_Tale_of_Beryn" title="Prologue and Tale of Beryn">Prologue and Tale of Beryn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Plowman%27s_Tale" title="The Plowman's Tale">The Plowman's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Pilgrim%27s_Tale" title="The Pilgrim's Tale">The Pilgrim's Tale</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="3" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Geoffrey_Chaucer_(17th_century).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Geoffrey_Chaucer_%2817th_century%29.jpg/100px-Geoffrey_Chaucer_%2817th_century%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="127" class="mw-file-element" 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<li><a href="/wiki/Ellesmere_Chaucer" title="Ellesmere Chaucer">Ellesmere Chaucer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harley_MS._7334" class="mw-redirect" title="Harley MS. 7334">Harley MS. 7334</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adam_Pinkhurst" title="Adam Pinkhurst">Adam Pinkhurst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scribe_D" title="Scribe D">Scribe D</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Shirley_(scribe)" title="John Shirley (scribe)">John Shirley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Spirleng" title="Geoffrey Spirleng">Geoffrey Spirleng</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chaucer%27s_influence_on_fifteenth-century_Scottish_literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Chaucer's influence on fifteenth-century Scottish literature">Chaucer's influence on fifteenth-century Scottish literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Influence_of_Italian_humanism_on_Chaucer" title="Influence of Italian humanism on Chaucer">Influence of Italian humanism on Chaucer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippa_Roet" title="Philippa Roet">Philippa Roet</a> (wife)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katherine_Swynford" title="Katherine Swynford">Katherine Swynford</a> (wife's sister)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Chaucer" title="Thomas Chaucer">Thomas Chaucer</a> (son)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alice_de_la_Pole" class="mw-redirect" title="Alice de la Pole">Alice de la Pole</a> (granddaughter)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Knight%27s_Tale" title="A Knight's Tale">A Knight's Tale</a></i> (2001 film)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" 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Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Cook%27s_Tale" title="The Cook's Tale">The Cook's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Man_of_Law%27s_Tale" title="The Man of Law's Tale">The Man of Law's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Wife_of_Bath%27s_Tale" title="The Wife of Bath's Tale">The Wife of Bath's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Friar%27s_Tale" title="The Friar's Tale">The Friar's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Summoner%27s_Tale" title="The Summoner's Tale">The Summoner's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Clerk%27s_Tale" title="The Clerk's Tale">The Clerk's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Merchant%27s_Tale" title="The Merchant's Tale">The Merchant's Tale</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The Squire's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Franklin%27s_Tale" title="The Franklin's Tale">The Franklin's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Physician%27s_Tale" title="The Physician's Tale">The Physician's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Pardoner%27s_Tale" title="The Pardoner's Tale">The Pardoner's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Shipman%27s_Tale" title="The Shipman's Tale">The Shipman's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Prioress%27s_Tale" title="The Prioress's Tale">The Prioress's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Thopas" title="Sir Thopas">Sir Thopas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Tale_of_Melibee" title="The Tale of Melibee">The Tale of Melibee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Monk%27s_Tale" title="The Monk's Tale">The Monk's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Nun%27s_Priest%27s_Tale" title="The Nun's Priest's Tale">The Nun's Priest's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Second_Nun%27s_Tale" title="The Second Nun's Tale">The Second Nun's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Canon%27s_Yeoman%27s_Tale" title="The Canon's Yeoman's Tale">The Canon's Yeoman's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Manciple%27s_Tale" title="The Manciple's Tale">The Manciple's Tale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Parson%27s_Tale" title="The 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Tales</a></i> (1972)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Stage and music</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Two_Noble_Kinsmen" title="The Two Noble Kinsmen">The Two Noble Kinsmen</a></i> (1634 play)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Canterbury_Pilgrims_(De_Koven)" title="The Canterbury Pilgrims (De Koven)">The Canterbury Pilgrims (De Koven)</a></i> (1917 opera)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Canterbury_Tales_(musical)" title="Canterbury Tales (musical)">Canterbury Tales</a></i> (1964 musical)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Television</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Trinity_Tales" title="Trinity Tales">Trinity Tales</a></i> (1975)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Canterbury_Tales_(TV_series)" title="Canterbury Tales (TV series)">Canterbury Tales</a></i> (2003)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Literature</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Canterbury_Puzzles" title="The Canterbury Puzzles">The Canterbury Puzzles</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Commentary_on_the_General_Prologue_to_The_Canterbury_Tales" title="A Commentary on the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales">A Commentary on the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Single tale<br />derivations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wedding_of_Sir_Gawain_and_Dame_Ragnelle" title="The 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