The Summoner's Tale
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The Summoner's Tale is one of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, a satirical and bawdy story that mocks corrupt friars and religious hypocrisy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Summoner's Tale canonical | 4 |
| The Summoner's Prologue | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canterbury Tale
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Middle English narrative poem ⓘ fabliau-like story ⓘ satirical tale ⓘ |
| antagonistCharacterType | corrupt friar ⓘ |
| author | Geoffrey Chaucer ⓘ |
| centralEpisode |
friar visits a sick man to beg for money
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sick man promises friar a special gift ⓘ |
| climacticJoke | division of a fart among friars ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | The Friar's Tale ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| depicts |
abuse of confession
ⓘ
exploitation of the laity ⓘ manipulative preaching ⓘ |
| genre |
bawdy story
ⓘ
comic narrative ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
a friar
ⓘ
a sick layman ⓘ the lord of the manor ⓘ the lord's squire ⓘ the sick man's wife ⓘ |
| language | Middle English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
allegory
ⓘ
comic grotesque ⓘ exaggeration ⓘ fabliau-style obscenity ⓘ irony ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Middle English
ⓘ
surface form:
Middle English literature
|
| mainTheme |
anger
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anticlericalism ⓘ corruption in the Church ⓘ greed ⓘ religious hypocrisy ⓘ |
| meter | iambic pentameter ⓘ |
| narrativeFrame | tale told by the Summoner ⓘ |
| partOf | The Canterbury Tales ⓘ |
| period | late 14th century ⓘ |
| relationshipToOtherTales | part of a quarrel between the Summoner and the Friar ⓘ |
| setting |
Yorkshire
ⓘ
a sick man's house ⓘ |
| targetsOfSatire |
friars
ⓘ
mendicant orders ⓘ |
| teller |
Summoner
ⓘ
surface form:
the Summoner
|
| tone |
comic
ⓘ
mocking ⓘ scatological ⓘ |
| verseForm | rhymed couplets ⓘ |
| workInCollectionOrder | one of the later tales in the Canterbury sequence ⓘ |
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Summoner's Prologue