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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chaucer, Geoffrey
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Cook's Tale

Introduction:

Actually, there is no "Cook's Tale." What we have is a prologue and a
very short fragment - so short, in fact, that it is almost futile to speculate
about what the complete tale might have been like. One thing is certain. The
Cook, Roger of Ware, was going to try to outdo the Reeve in sheer bawdy
jesting. We do not know, either, why Chaucer interrupted his composition of
the Cook's Tale. A likely guess, however, is that he realized that another
tale like the Miller's and the Reeve's would be overdoing things. One who had
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