About: The Reeve's Tale

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The story is a direct response to "The Miller's Tale" which precedes it. In "The Miller's Tale", a foolish carpenter is outwitted by a student who has sex with the man's wife. In "The Reeve's Tale", a foolish miller is outwitted by two students who have sex with the man's wife and daughter.

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rdfs:label	The Reeve's Tale
rdfs:comment	The story is a direct response to "The Miller's Tale" which precedes it. In "The Miller's Tale", a foolish carpenter is outwitted by a student who has sex with the man's wife. In "The Reeve's Tale", a foolish miller is outwitted by two students who have sex with the man's wife and daughter.
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dcterms:subject	Comedy Canterbury Tales Erotic
abstract	The story is a direct response to "The Miller's Tale" which precedes it. In "The Miller's Tale", a foolish carpenter is outwitted by a student who has sex with the man's wife. In "The Reeve's Tale", a foolish miller is outwitted by two students who have sex with the man's wife and daughter. The two students in the story come from north-east England and their speech is different from the southern English dialect in which the rest of The Canterbury Tales is written. "The Reeve's Tale" is both the earliest known text which attempts to differentiate between two different dialects of English and the earliest known English work which uses a character's accent for comedic effect, something that continues to be a feature of comedy to this day.

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