Canterbury Tales
This Canterbury pilgrim, whose real name was Robin, was known for playing bagpipes and knocking doors down with his head.
The Miller
The author of The Time Machine, he also wrote The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man.
HG Wells
The woman in the story says the wallpaper smells like this. She tries to tear it off to get rid of the smell.
Smoke
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend."
Polonius - advice to his son who is leaving for college
These two terms from The Time Machine are opposites meaning "countries of the East" and "countries of the West"
Oriental/Occidental
This Canterbury Pilgrim sold fake religious relics on the side. His real job also included selling religious indulgences.
The Pardoner
These are the two subspecies of humans in the future.
Morlocks and Eloi
This is the occupation of both the woman's husband and the woman's brother in the story.
Doctors
“To be, or not to be, that is the question:
whether 'tis nobler in the mind
to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
and by opposing end them.”
Hamlet - he is debating on killing himself
These medieval "rockstars" went from town to town whipping themselves to drive away the plague (and to impress the ladies).
The Flagellants
At the end of The Miller's Tale, this object is borrowed from a blacksmith for a prank.
A red hot poker
The time traveler brings this object back with him as his only proof of his journey
flowers
This is the name of the "disorder" everyone tells the narrator she has. It was also a "disorder" suffered by the author.
Hysteria
“For that purpose I’ll anoint my sword
I bought an unction of a mountebank
So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,
Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare
Collected from all simples that have virtue
Under the moon, can save the thing from death”
This medieval system of symbols was used to decorate the shields and banners of important knights.
Heraldry
This author of The Canterbury Tales is also a character in the Heath Ledger film, A Knight's Tale
Chaucer
This character nearly suffered the same fate as Shakespear's Ophelia.
Weena
The narrator says she always locks the door when she does this...
“Sweets to the sweet, farewell!
I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife;
I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet maid,
And not have strewed thy grave.”
Gertrude - she is laying flowers on Ophelia's grave
This is the name of the Anglo-Saxon alphabet (hint: it is named after the first six letters)
FUThORC ("TH" was one letter)
At the end of The Wife of Bath's tale, a knight discovers that this is "what women really want"
To be in charge
The other scientists in the story initially don't believe the Time Traveler because of this prank he once pulled at Christmas.
faked a ghost sighting
A signed copy
“How now, a rat! Dead for a ducat, dead!”
Hamlet - he is stabbing Polonius, who is spying behind a curtain
This famous quotation from Hamlet was also engraved on a heart shaped locket in Reba McIntyre's song, "Fancy"
"To Thine Own Self Be True"