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===Music=== * Recorded in 1965, [[Lester Trimble]]'s ''Four Fragments from the Caunterbury Tales'' sets to music four excerpts: "Prologe," "A Knyght," "A Yong Squier," and "The Wyf Of Biside Bathe." It is available in the [[Internet Archive]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Four Fragments from the Caunterbury Tales |first=Lester |last=Trimble |author-link=Lester Trimble |year=1965 |url=https://archive.org/details/lp_four-fragments-from-the-caunterbury-tal_lester-trimble-theodore-chanler}}</ref> * British [[Psychedelic rock]] band [[Procol Harum|Procol Harum's]] 1967 hit "[[A Whiter Shade of Pale]]" is often assumed to be referencing the Canterbury Tales through the line, "as the miller told his tale." However, lyricist [[Keith Reid]] has denied this, saying he had never read Chaucer when he wrote the line.<ref>{{cite web|author=Butler, Mike|title=In truth they were at sea: Lives of the Great Songs – A Whiter Shade of Pale: Vestal Virgins, light fandangoes: Procol Harum's classic can be baffling. Mike Butler asked its authors to help|date=17 September 1994|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music-in-truth-they-were-at-sea-lives-of-the-great-songs-a-whiter-shade-of-pale-vestal-virgins-light-fandangoes-procol-harum-s-classic-can-be-baffling-mike-butler-asked-its-authors-to-help-1449408.html|access-date=24 May 2021|work=The Independent}}</ref> * The title of [[Sting (musician)|Sting]]'s 1993 album ''[[Ten Summoner's Tales]]'' alludes to "[[The Summoner's Tale]]" and to Sting's birth name, Gordon Sumner.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Marienberg|first1=Evyatar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_A0VEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22ten+summoner%27s+tales%22+canterbury&pg=PT101|title=Sting and Religion: The Catholic-Shaped Imagination of a Rock Icon|date=2021|publisher=Cascade Books|isbn=9781725272262|location=Eugene, Or.|access-date=2021-07-10}}</ref> {{Panorama |image=File:Canterbury-west-Winter-Highsmith.jpeg |fullwidth=6900 |fullheight=825 |height=165 |caption= [[Ezra Winter]], ''Canterbury Tales'' mural (1939), [[Library of Congress]] [[John Adams Building]], Washington, D.C. This mural is located on the west wall of the North Reading Room, and features the Miller, Host, Knight, Squire, Yeoman, Doctor, Chaucer, Man of Law, Clerk, Manciple, Sailor, Prioress, Nun, and three Priests; the other pilgrims appear on the east wall mural.<ref>{{cite web|title=On These Walls: Inscriptions and Quotations in the Buildings of the Library of Congress|website=[[Library of Congress]]|url=https://www.loc.gov/loc/walls/adams.html#norr|access-date=31 December 2012}}</ref>}} <gallery class="center"> File:The Knight - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Knight File:The Squire - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Squire File:The Reeve - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|Oswald The Reeve File:Canterbury Tales - The Miller - f. 34v detail - Robin with the Bagpype - early 1400s Chaucer.png|Robin The Miller File:Chaucer cook.jpg|Roger The Cook File:Wife-of-Bath-ms-2.jpg|Alison The Wife of Bath File:The Franklin - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Franklin File:The Shipman - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Shipman File:The Manciple - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Manciple File:The Merchant - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Merchant File:The Clerk of Oxford from the “Ellesmere Chaucer” (Huntington Library, San Marino).jpg|The Clerk of Oxford File:The Man of Law from the EllsMan of Law from the “Ellesmere Chaucer” (Huntington Library, San Marino).jpg|The Sergeant of Law File:The Physician - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Physician File:The Parson - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Parson File:The Monk - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Monk File:The Prioress - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|Madame Eglantine The Prioress File:The Second Nun - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Second Nun File:The Nun's Priest - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Nun's Priest File:Friar-canterbury-tales.jpg|Hubert The Friar File:The Summoner - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Summoner File:The Pardoner - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Pardoner File:The Canon's Yeoman - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Canon Yeoman File:Ellesmere Chaucer, mssEL 26 C 9, folio 153v, warmer image.jpg|Geoffrey Chaucer </gallery>
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