George Burns
George Burns 1896-1996, b. New York City as Nathan Birnbaum, and his wife Gracie Allen, 1906-64, b. San Francisco, American comedy team (1923-58). In vaudeville in the 1920s, on radio (1932-50) and television (1950-58) and in films, they played an endlessly patient husband and scatterbrained wife. Although he continued to perform after his wife's retirement, his solo career did not flourish until he won an Academy Award for The Sunshine Boys (1975). Subsequently, Burns enjoyed great success as a cigar-puffing nightclub entertainer and as a film actor, becoming particularly well-known for his role as God in three motion pictures.
Bibliography: See his Gracie: A Love Story (1988) and All My Best Friends (1989).
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Sources and Analogues of the 'Canterbury Tales'.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' was published (Chicago...chapters on the frame and on the tales of the Reeve, Cook, Friar...Riverside Chaucer, though as the tales are taken from the whole poem...Cook (pp. 75-86),whose tale is incomplete. John Scattergood...some comments on the Tale of ...
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Chaucer's poetry, versioning, and hypertext.
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 6/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...transmission of the Canterbury Tales in a number of ways. Some provided missing Tales, such as substituting the spurious Tale of Gamelyn for the fragmentary Cook's Tale, and others altered the order of specific Tales and fragments, such as the...
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IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/5/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...English Dictionary. But does that mean brokeback is wrong? Not exactly. In the OED's earliest citation, from "The Tale of Gamelyn" (a narrative poem from about 1400), the word is not brokenbacked but brokeback (spelled "broke-bak). Elsewhere...
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Chaucer and his English Contemporaries: Prologue and Tales in 'The Canterbury Tales'.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...what Chaucer thought a prologue and a tale to be, and how far the Canterbury Tales was experimental compared with the practice...a lively account of the Manciple's Tale and Chaucer's withdrawal from the process of narration towards the end of the Tales (pp. 193-95). I should have ...
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The Spirit of Medieval English Popular Romance.(Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2001; 541 words
; ...on Lai le Freine, Myra Stokes on Sir Launfal, T. A. Shippey on Gamelyn, Elizabeth Fowler on Sir Isumbras, James Simpson on naming patterns in Sir Degare, Malory's `Tale of Sir Gareth', and the Folie Tristan d'Oxford, Arlyn Diamond...
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The Tale of Gamelyn
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
The Tale of Gamelyn , a romance in verse, written c.1350...man abused by his older brothers. The tale survives in 25 manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales, sometimes entitled "The Cook's Tale," though it is not by Geoffrey Chaucer...
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Gamelyn, The Tale of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Gamelyn, The Tale of, a verse romance of the mid...of manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales , usually assigned to the Cook...version of it for use as the Cook's tale. The story, which recounts Gamelyn's flight to the forest and attempts...
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Robin Hood
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...affinity with Chaucer's ‘Cook's Tale of Gamelyn’ (see Gamelyn ) and with the tales of other legendary outlaws such as Clym of...Chettle , Tennyson , and others. The True Tale of Robbin Hood was published c. 1632, Robin...
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Rosalynde, Euphues Golden Legacie
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...Euphues , diversified with sonnets and eclogues, by Lodge , published 1590. The story is borrowed in part from The Tale of Gamelyn and was dramatized by Shakespeare in As You Like It . Lodge's romance includes such well-known lyrics as ‘...
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