A Knight's Tale
This character is the antagonist of the film.
Sir William Thatcher
Another name for the Middle Ages
The Dark Ages
...had followed chivalry,/Truth, honor, generousness, and courtesy.
He was the finest beggar of his batch
Friar
Yet he was rather close as to expenses
And kept the gold he won in pestilences.
God stimulates the heart, or so we're told,
He therefore had a special love of gold.
Doctor
What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
African or European Swallow
Carried by fleas on rats
The Black Plague
He could make songs and poems and recite,
He knew how to joust and dnace, to draw and write.
Squire
Garlic he loved, and onions too, and leeks,
And drinking strong red wine till all was hazy.
Then he would shout and jabber as if crazy,
And wouldn't speak a word except in Latin
When he was drunk, such tags as he was pat in
Summoner
She'd had five husbands, all at the church door.
This literary work was the basis of the film.
The Canterbury Tales
This fraction of Europe's population was wiped out by the Black Plague
1/3
And in his hand he bore a mighty bow.
His head was like a nut, his face was brown,
He knew the whole of woodcraft up and down.
Yeoman
I judge he was a gelding, or a mare
Pardoner
Broad, knotty and short-shouldered, he would boast
He could heave any door off hinge and post.
Miller
This character acts as the antagonist
That jerk count guy who fell off his horse in the end signifying that arrogance rarely results in winning in the end. Stupid noble.
This time period ranged from the Fall of Rome to the Rennaissance
The Middle Ages
Bold in his speech, yet wise and full of tact,
There was no manly attribute he lacked,
What's more he was a merry-hearted man.
Host
Though as a philosopher, as I have told,
He had not found the stone for making gold.
Oxford Cleric
He was so stately in administration,
In loans and bargains and negotiation.
Merchant
This author was gifted a character in the film.
Geoffrey Chaucer
This was the dominant Church during the Middle Ages
The Catholic Church
And he could judge by watching drought and rain
The yield he might expect from seed and grain
Reeve
She used to weep if she but saw a mouse
Caught in a trap, if it were dead or bleeding.
Prioress
But what a pity- so it seemed to me,
That he should have an ulcer on his knee.
Cook