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Sharing stories: Transforming lives Counselling and Transformation 4th Annual Keele University Counselling Conference 26th- 28th March 2010 Michael Murray The prologue • Performance of Canterbury Tales by Northern Broadsides at New Vic Theatre • Enthusiastic reception • Integral role of narrative in everyday life • Performative nature of narrative The writer • Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) • Wrote the tales in parts • Work was unfinished • Included details from different sources including references to the author • Like life itself, it was accumulative and unpredictable – Peter Ackroyd Canterbury Tales • Tales told by group of 28 pilgrims as they make their way from Southwark to Canterbury – … to Canterbury they wende The holy blissful martir for to seke – And made forward erly for to ryse, To take oure wey ther as I yow devyse • All agreed to tell a tale and the best was would receive a meal paid by the others – The best sentence and moost solaas Big tale • Big narrative is that of the pilgrimage • It is a metaphor for the journey to the new Jerusalem • Life is seen as a pilgrimage – This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro Little tales • Within it there are many small stories – 24 tales in all • Each tale is shared with the others • These tales are drawn from a variety of classic, religious and other sources The Wife of Bath’s Tale • Through a variety of amusing anecdotes considers the role of women in marriage – Experience, though noon auctorittee Were in this world, is right ynogh for me To speke of wo that is in mariage • Her experiences with five husbands • Men have to pleasure their wives and wives have to keep control of their husbands The Miller’s Tale • Tale of a young woman who is married to an old man • She develops relationship with young man • Tale is full of bawdy humour – Derk was the nyght as pich, or as the cole, And at the wyndow out she putte hir hole David Salle The Millers Tale Different types of tale • Smaller tales – Tales as entertainment – Moral tales on the role of women – Tales about how things are not what they seem • Bigger tale – Life as a journey to a heavenly paradise – Life as being full of woe – Need for entertainment – Stories as source of moral truths General principles • Human’s view the world in the form of narratives • Narratives are organised sequences of events • Events occur in time • Narrative provides an understanding of how events are linked
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