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morality tale — /məˈræləti teɪl/ (say muh raluhtee tayl) noun a story of the kind told in a morality play …
tale — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ long, rambling ▪ familiar ▪ amazing, bizarre, curious (esp. BrE), extraordinary, fantastic … Collocations dictionary
cautionary tale — A literary term, referring to a narrative with a moral message warning of the consequences of certain actions, ideologies, character flaws, technologies or institutions, often with a downbeat ending; many slasher horror films are semi… … Glossary of cinematic terms
The Merchant's Prologue and Tale — is one of Geoffrey Chaucer s Canterbury Tales . In it Chaucer subtly mocks antifeminist literature like that of Theophrastus ( Theofraste ). The tale also shows the influence of Boccaccio ( Decameron : 7th day, 9th tale), Deschamps Lang|it|Le… … Wikipedia
The Merchant's Tale — Contents 1 Summary of the tale 2 The Fabliau debate 3 Sources and variants … Wikipedia
The Miller's Prologue and Tale — The Miller s Tale is the second of Geoffrey Chaucer s Canterbury Tales (1380s 1390s), told by a drunken miller to quite (requite) The Knight s Tale. When the host Harry Bailey asks for something to quite with it, this can be taken to mean to pay… … Wikipedia
The Tale of Savva Grudtsyn — infobox Book | name = The Tale of Savva Grudtsyn title orig = Повесть о Савве Грудцыне translator = Serge Zenkovsky image caption = author = Anonymous illustrator = cover artist = country = Russia language = Russian series = genre = Tale… … Wikipedia
Clerk’s Tale, The — by Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1390) CHAUCER’s Clerk of Oxford, a theology student, tells one of the most controversial and disturbing of the CANTERBURY TALES. Told partly in response to the WIFE OF BATH’s assertion that it is impossible for a… … Encyclopedia of medieval literature
Bearskin (French fairy tale) — Bearskin is a French literary fairy tale attributed to Henriette Julie de Murat. [Marina Warner, ed. Wonder Tales , p 99, ISBN 0 374 29281 7] ynopsisA king and queen had lost all their children except a daughter, whom they were in no hurry to… … Wikipedia
Old wives' tale — For the English novel, see The Old Wives Tale. An old wives tale is a type of urban legend, similar to a proverb, which is generally passed down by old wives to a younger generation. Such tales usually consist of superstition, folklore or… … Wikipedia
