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Gamelyn, The Tale of

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Gamelyn, The Tale of, a verse romance of the mid-14th cent. from the East Midlands, in 902 lines of long couplets. It is found in a number of manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales, usually assigned to the Cook, and Chaucer possibly intended to write a version of it for use as the Cook's tale.

The story, which recounts Gamelyn's flight to the forest and attempts to recover his stolen birthright, has affinities with Shakespeare's As You Like It and with the legends of Robin Hood.

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The Tale of Gamelyn

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The Tale of Gamelyn , a romance in verse, written c.1350, containing about 900 lines. It tells of the tribulations of a young 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 . It served as a prototype for several later works, including Shakespeare's As You Like It.

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