The Reeve's Tale
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"The Reeve's Tale" is one of Geoffrey Chaucer's comic fabliaux in The Canterbury Tales, featuring a vengeful reeve recounting a bawdy story of two students who outwit a dishonest miller.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Reeve's Tale canonical | 3 |
| The Reeve's Prologue | 1 |
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canterbury Tales tale
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Middle English narrative poem ⓘ fabliau ⓘ |
| author | Geoffrey Chaucer ⓘ |
| compositionCentury | 14th century ⓘ |
| containsCharacterType |
miller
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miller's daughter ⓘ miller's wife ⓘ university students ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| followsInSequence | The Miller's Tale ⓘ |
| form | verse narrative ⓘ |
| frameNarrativeContext | The Canterbury Tales pilgrimage to Canterbury ⓘ |
| genre |
bawdy tale
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comic fabliau ⓘ |
| hasFrameSpeakerOccupation | reeve ⓘ |
| language | Middle English ⓘ |
| literaryInfluence | French fabliau tradition ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Middle English literature ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
a miller named Symkyn
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a reeve ⓘ two clerks from Cambridge ⓘ |
| meter | iambic pentameter with rhymed couplets ⓘ |
| motif |
bedroom farce
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miller cheating customers ⓘ trickster outwitted ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | to retaliate against the Miller's mockery of carpenters ⓘ |
| narrator | the Reeve ⓘ |
| originalVerseForm | rhymed couplets ⓘ |
| partOf | The Canterbury Tales ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Two Cambridge clerks are cheated by a dishonest miller and take revenge through sexual and practical tricks on the miller and his family. ⓘ |
| reeveProfessionInFrame | estate manager ⓘ |
| relationshipToTheMiller'sTale | hostile response ⓘ |
| setting | near Cambridge, England ⓘ |
| theme |
class conflict
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corruption and dishonesty ⓘ deception ⓘ revenge ⓘ sexual trickery ⓘ social satire ⓘ |
| tone |
bawdy
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comic ⓘ satirical ⓘ |
| workInPublicDomain | yes ⓘ |
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Reeve (The Canterbury Tales)
this entity surface form:
The Reeve's Prologue
subject surface form:
Reeve (The Canterbury Tales)