Understanding Chaucer's "Reeve's Tale"

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This paper discusses Chaucer's "Reeve's Tale". The author analyzes the main themes in the book and discusses some of the main characters and how they portray the themes.

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"The "Reeve's Tale," from the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill, published by Penguin Books in 1951, is a fabliau of 14 pages set in the middle ages. The Reeve tells his tale to counter the Miller's Tale. It is about two clerks who bring their grain to be milled by a thieving miller. The miller steals their grain and they pay him back with what is justly due. The theme of the "Reeve's Tale" is do unto others as they do unto you. This theme is carried through the "Reeve's Tale" by the underlying meanings of its characters and happenings."

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