Parliament of Fowls was written in the early 1380's. ... It was also a forerunner of the Canterbury Tales because of its similar styles. ... The Canterbury Tales also remains unfinished. ... We are only given twenty-four of the promised tales. It isinteresting to see that Chaucer has most deeply portrayed those characters which he has personally experienced. ...
39 Time to turn back and descend the stair, 40 With a bald spot in the middle of my hair -- 41 (They will say: 'How his hair is growing thin!") ... S. ... Prince Hamlet: not Shakespeare's noble prince, who resisted the temptation to commit suicide in his "To be or not to be" speech (alluded to at line's end), but instead characters like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (cf. 112-16), Polonius (cf. 117), and Osric (cf. 118). ... high sentence: a phrase from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, meaning "elevated, serious and moral thoughts expressed formally." 119. the Fool: S...
