The Cook's Tale
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The Cook's Tale is an unfinished, bawdy story from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales that follows the misadventures of an apprentice who abandons honest work for a life of revelry and vice.
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canterbury Tale
ⓘ
Middle English narrative poem ⓘ frame tale episode ⓘ |
| approximateCompositionDate | late 14th century ⓘ |
| author | Geoffrey Chaucer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | part of the Chaucerian canon ⓘ |
| collectionStructurePosition | one of the early tales in the Canterbury pilgrimage sequence ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| depicts |
London tavern life
ⓘ
dancing and music ⓘ gambling ⓘ sexual promiscuity ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Perkyn Revelour
NERFINISHED
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Perkyn's host ⓘ Perkyn's host's wife ⓘ the Cook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| frameNarrator | the Cook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
bawdy tale
ⓘ
fabliau ⓘ |
| hasScholarlyDebate | authenticity and completeness ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | the Cook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy | French fabliaux tradition ⓘ |
| isUnfinished | true ⓘ |
| language | Middle English NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryForm | story within a frame narrative ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Middle English literature ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Middle Ages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manuscriptTradition | preserved in multiple Canterbury Tales manuscripts ⓘ |
| meter | iambic pentameter ⓘ |
| moralStance | implicitly critical of idleness and vice ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | verse ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person frame with third-person embedded story ⓘ |
| partOf | The Canterbury Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryManuscriptLanguage | Middle English GENERATED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | apprentice cook ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
The Miller's Tale
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Reeve's Tale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | rhyming couplets ⓘ |
| setting |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
| textualState | breaks off abruptly ⓘ |
| theme |
apprenticeship and misrule
ⓘ
idleness and work ⓘ urban immorality ⓘ vice and revelry ⓘ |
| tone |
comic
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satirical ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.