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General Prologue
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
alcohol use, tavern culture, ribald sexual misconduct references, profanity/oaths, and church-court sexual-corruption context.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.GENERAL_PROLOGUE_MILLER_SUMMONER_FRIAR_PARDONER_AND_HOST_PORTRAITS
General Prologue
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
sexual misconduct and concubine-related corruption references; use Level 4 only if the adopted standard treats brief sexual-access corruption as adult sexual content.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.GENERAL_PROLOGUE_SUMMONER_PORTRAIT
The Knight's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
combat, imprisonment, blood, and violent rivalry.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_KNIGHTS_TALE_THEBES_WAR_AND_PRISON_CONTEXT
The Knight's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
bloody armed combat with severe wounds.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_KNIGHTS_TALE_PALAMON_AND_ARCITE_DUEL
The Knight's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
graphic martial imagery, murder, suicide, blood, and fatal injury context.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_KNIGHTS_TALE_TEMPLE_OF_MARS_AND_TOURNAMENT_SEQUENCE
The Knight's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
fatal bodily injury and cremation/funeral-pyre imagery.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_KNIGHTS_TALE_ARCITES_DEATH_AND_FUNERAL
The Knight's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
non-sexual mythic nudity and sensualized pagan-temple imagery in a poetic context.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_KNIGHTS_TALE_DIANA_VENUS_MARS_IMAGERY
The Miller's Tale
Level 5: Aberrant Content
Adult only.
Nicholas grabs Alison sexually and pressures her after she resists; sexual battery/coercion context.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MILLERS_TALE_NICHOLAS_AND_ALISON
The Miller's Tale
Level 4: No Minors
Adult content. No child under 18.
planned and consummated adultery/intercourse while the carpenter is deceived.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MILLERS_TALE_NICHOLAS_AND_ALISON_AFFAIR
The Miller's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
sexualized exposure, obscene buttocks-kissing episode, farting humiliation, and retaliatory branding injury.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MILLERS_TALE_ABSOLON_AND_ALISON_NICHOLAS_TRICK
The Miller's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
carpenter falls and breaks an arm after the deception.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MILLERS_TALE_FINAL_FALL
The Miller's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
drunkenness, ribaldry, and coarse sexual setup.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MILLERS_TALE_PROLOGUE
The Reeve's Tale
Level 5: Aberrant Content
Adult only.
sleeping-person sexual exploitation; the daughter realizes too late to call out.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_REEVES_TALE_ALEYN_AND_THE_MILLERS_DAUGHTER
The Reeve's Tale
Level 5: Aberrant Content
Adult only.
mistaken-identity sexual exploitation after the cradle is moved and the wife enters the wrong bed.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_REEVES_TALE_JOHN_AND_THE_MILLERS_WIFE
The Reeve's Tale
Level 4: No Minors
Adult content. No child under 18.
explicit adultery/intercourse references involving the wife and daughter.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_REEVES_TALE_NIGHT_IN_THE_MILLERS_HOUSE
The Reeve's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
assault, bloody injury, broken mouth/nose imagery, and chaotic household violence.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_REEVES_TALE_MILLER_FIGHT
The Reeve's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
drunkenness, theft, sexual boasting, and coarse insults.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_REEVES_TALE_PROLOGUE_AND_MILL_EPISODE
The Cook's Tale
Level 4: No Minors
Adult content. No child under 18.
prostitution/sexual commerce context.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_COOKS_TALE_PERKYN_AND_PROSTITUTES_HOUSEHOLD
The Cook's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
taverns, dice, riotous behavior, gambling, and sexual misconduct references.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_COOKS_TALE_APPRENTICE_CONDUCT
The Man of Law's Tale
Level 5: Aberrant Content
Adult only.
brief reference to incestuous sexual assault in a rejected tale source.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MAN_OF_LAWS_TALE_PROLOGUE_ANTIOCHUS_ALLUSION
The Man of Law's Tale
Level 5: Aberrant Content
Adult only.
attempted sexual assault/coerced sex; the steward attacks Constance and is drowned in the struggle.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MAN_OF_LAWS_TALE_STEWARD_AND_CONSTANCE
The Man of Law's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
banquet betrayal and mass killing of Christians.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MAN_OF_LAWS_TALE_SOUDANESS_MASSACRE
The Man of Law's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
throat-cutting, bloody knife, and false murder accusation.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MAN_OF_LAWS_TALE_HERMEGILD_MURDER_FRAME
The Man of Law's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
drunkenness, forged letters, exile of mother and child at sea, torture, and execution.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MAN_OF_LAWS_TALE_MESSENGER_AND_ALLAS_MOTHER
The Man of Law's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
burning, slaying, and mass retaliatory violence.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MAN_OF_LAWS_TALE_RETALIATION_AGAINST_SYRIANS
The Man of Law's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
sustained religious hostility and forced-conversion context.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MAN_OF_LAWS_TALE_CHRISTIAN_MUSLIM_CONFLICT_FRAMING
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
Level 5: Aberrant Content
Adult only.
rape; the knight takes a young woman's maidenhead by force.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_WIFE_OF_BATHS_TALE_KNIGHT_AND_MAIDEN
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
Level 4: No Minors
Adult content. No child under 18.
sustained explicit discussion of intercourse, marital sexual obligation, sexual anatomy, virginity, and sexual appetite.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_WIFE_OF_BATHS_PROLOGUE_MARRIAGE_AND_SEX_ARGUMENT
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
Level 4: No Minors
Adult content. No child under 18.
forced-marriage and bed/sexual-obligation context after the knight's sentence is commuted.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_WIFE_OF_BATHS_TALE_COERCED_MARRIAGE_BARGAIN
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
domestic assault and injury in the marriage narrative.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_WIFE_OF_BATHS_PROLOGUE_JANKYN_CONFLICT
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
death sentence for rape before the queen's alternative judgment.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_WIFE_OF_BATHS_TALE_COURT_SENTENCE
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
repeated sexual vice references, intoxication references, and coarse marital speech.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_WIFE_OF_BATHS_PROLOGUE_ALCOHOL_AND_BAWDY_DEBATE
The Friar's Tale
Level 4: No Minors
Adult content. No child under 18.
bawdry, prostitution/brothel context, adultery, and sexual-corruption references.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_FRIARS_TALE_CHURCH_COURT_OFFENSES
The Friar's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
sexual-offense summonses, extortion, curses, and supernatural damnation imagery; hell imagery is not independently rated unless the policy includes horror/religious-terror content.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_FRIARS_TALE_SUMMONER_AND_DEVIL
The Summoner's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
drunken ruler kills a child with an arrow.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_SUMMONERS_TALE_CAMBYSES_EXEMPLUM
The Summoner's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
homicide, drunkenness, and violent moral anecdotes.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_SUMMONERS_TALE_ANGER_AND_HOMICIDE_SERMON_EXAMPLES
The Summoner's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
policy-dependent coarse bodily humor involving a fart-in-hand joke and buttocks/gross-out framing.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_SUMMONERS_TALE_THOMAS_AND_THE_FRIAR
The Summoner's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
lechery, wives/lemans, and sexual misconduct references without a sustained sexual act.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_SUMMONERS_TALE_SEXUAL_SIN_REFERENCES
The Clerk's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
Walter falsely claims the children will be killed and maintains a prolonged child-murder deception.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_CLERKS_TALE_GRISELDAS_CHILDREN
The Clerk's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
coercive psychological abuse, forced separation from children, public degradation, and severe emotional cruelty.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_CLERKS_TALE_GRISELDAS_HUMILIATION
The Clerk's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
maidenhead references, stripping, smock/nakedness references, and public humiliation.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_CLERKS_TALE_WEDDING_AND_DISMISSAL_SCENES
The Merchant's Tale
Level 5: Aberrant Content
Adult only.
mythic abduction/sexual-assault reference; translation-sensitive because "ravished" may be read as abduction or sexual assault depending edition and note.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MERCHANTS_TALE_PLUTO_AND_PROSERPINA_REFERENCE
The Merchant's Tale
Level 4: No Minors
Adult content. No child under 18.
old man seeks a very young wife for sexual/reproductive access, with explicit marital-sexual discussion.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MERCHANTS_TALE_JANUARYS_MARRIAGE_PLAN
The Merchant's Tale
Level 4: No Minors
Adult content. No child under 18.
sexualized marriage-bed context, nudity, and marital-sexual access.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MERCHANTS_TALE_JANUARY_AND_MAY
The Merchant's Tale
Level 4: No Minors
Adult content. No child under 18.
explicit adulterous intercourse in the pear-tree episode.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MERCHANTS_TALE_MAY_AND_DAMIAN
The Merchant's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
sustained misogynistic and sex-based contempt language.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MERCHANTS_TALE_PLUTO_PROSERPINA_GENDER_DEBATE
The Squire's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
self-inflicted wounds, blood, swooning, and severe distress.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_SQUIRES_TALE_WOUNDED_FALCON
The Squire's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
non-graphic battle background, armed knight imagery, and fantasy weapon capable of severe wounds.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_SQUIRES_TALE_CAMBUSCAN_WAR_BACKGROUND_AND_MAGIC_SWORD
The Squire's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
sexual/romantic betrayal framed through courtly animal allegory; not rated as explicit sexual activity.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_SQUIRES_TALE_FALCONS_BETRAYAL_STORY
The Franklin's Tale
Level 5: Aberrant Content
Adult only.
repeated references to rape, attempted rape, forced sexual violation, and women killing themselves to avoid sexual assault.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_FRANKLINS_TALE_DORIGENS_EXEMPLA
The Franklin's Tale
Level 5: Aberrant Content
Adult only.
explicit rape/sexual-assault references used in Dorigen's chastity argument.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_FRANKLINS_TALE_LUCRETIA_AND_RELATED_ALLUSIONS
The Franklin's Tale
Level 4: No Minors
Adult content. No child under 18.
coerced adultery/sexual-access bargain after Aurelius appears to satisfy the impossible condition; no intercourse occurs because Aurelius releases her.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_FRANKLINS_TALE_DORIGEN_AND_AURELIUS_BARGAIN
The Franklin's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
extended suicidal reasoning and examples of self-killing.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_FRANKLINS_TALE_DORIGENS_SUICIDE_DELIBERATION
The Franklin's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
slain fathers, blood, drowning, suicide, and threatened sexual violence in the exempla.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_FRANKLINS_TALE_VIOLENT_CHASTITY_EXAMPLES
The Franklin's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
repeated death/despair language and emotional coercion around romantic pursuit.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_FRANKLINS_TALE_AURELIUS_DESPAIR
The Physician's Tale
Level 5: Aberrant Content
Adult only.
corrupt judge schemes to seize a young girl for sexual exploitation/lechery.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_PHYSICIANS_TALE_APPIUS_AND_VIRGINIA
The Physician's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
father beheads his daughter to prevent sexual exploitation.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_PHYSICIANS_TALE_VIRGINIUS_KILLS_VIRGINIA
The Physician's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
judge suicide, threatened hanging, exile, and executions.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_PHYSICIANS_TALE_AFTERMATH
The Physician's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
virginity, chastity, and sexual danger language surrounding a young girl.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_PHYSICIANS_TALE_MAIDENHOOD_FRAMING
The Pardoner's Tale
Level 4: No Minors
Adult content. No child under 18.
brothel/stews, lechery, adultery, and sexual vice references.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_PARDONERS_TALE_PROLOGUE_AND_SERMON_ON_VICE
The Pardoner's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
murder plot, stabbing, poisoning, and deaths of all three men.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_PARDONERS_TALE_THREE_RIOTERS
The Pardoner's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
drug/alcohol abuse, blasphemous oaths, homicide examples, and death imagery.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_PARDONERS_TALE_GLUTTONY_DRUNKENNESS_SERMON
The Pardoner's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
coarse sexual/body-part insult and profanity after the Pardoner solicits offerings.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_PARDONERS_TALE_HOSTS_RESPONSE
The Pardoner's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
drinking, gambling/dice, tavern culture, profanity, and vice catalog.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_PARDONERS_TALE_TAVERN_SETTING
The Shipman's Tale
Level 4: No Minors
Adult content. No child under 18.
transactional adultery: the wife receives money and the monk receives sexual access.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_SHIPMANS_TALE_MONK_AND_MERCHANTS_WIFE
The Shipman's Tale
Level 4: No Minors
Adult content. No child under 18.
wife proposes repaying her husband sexually after the monk's deception is exposed.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_SHIPMANS_TALE_REPAYMENT_IN_BED
The Shipman's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
suicidal/self-destruction language used in the money-and-sex bargain setup.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_SHIPMANS_TALE_WIFES_DESPAIR_STATEMENT
The Shipman's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
profanity/oaths and anti-Lollard religious contempt.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_SHIPMANS_TALE_PROLOGUE
The Prioress's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
child is seized, throat is cut, and the body is hidden.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_PRIORESSS_TALE_CHILD_MURDER
The Prioress's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
torture, drawing by horses, and hanging.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_PRIORESSS_TALE_EXECUTION_OF_JEWS
The Prioress's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
sustained dehumanizing anti-Jewish framing connected to murder accusation and collective punishment.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_PRIORESSS_TALE_RELIGIOUS_ETHNIC_HATE
The Prioress's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
religious/ethnic hostility and segregation language even apart from the violence.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_PRIORESSS_TALE_ANTI_JEWISH_SETTING
Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
moderate fantasy violence, threat to slay the knight's steed, weapons, and projected combat.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.SIR_THOPAS_GIANT_ENCOUNTER
Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
mild/inexplicit sexuality in courtly romance framing.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.SIR_THOPAS_LOVE_LONGING_AND_ELF_QUEEN
Chaucer's Tale of Melibee
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
home invasion, wife beaten, daughter wounded in five places and left for dead.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.MELIBEE_ATTACK_ON_PRUDENCE_AND_SOPHIA
Chaucer's Tale of Melibee
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
extended counsel over vengeance, death penalty, exile, and war.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.MELIBEE_REVENGE_AND_WAR_DEBATE
Chaucer's Tale of Melibee
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
moral/legal references to adultery, drunkenness, enemies, and violence without explicit sexual depiction.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.MELIBEE_VICE_AND_ADULTERY_REFERENCES
The Monk's Tale
Level 4: No Minors
Adult content. No child under 18.
coarse sexual-reproductive jokes about monks, wives, and begetting.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MONKS_TALE_PROLOGUE
The Monk's Tale
Level 4: No Minors
Adult content. No child under 18.
incest reference and sexual vice in the catalogue of tyrants and tragic falls.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MONKS_TALE_NERO_EPISODE
The Monk's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
mass killing, blinding, imprisonment, suicide-like temple collapse, and thousands killed.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MONKS_TALE_SAMSON
The Monk's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
repeated monster killings, poisoned shirt, flesh/bone injury, and self-immolation.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MONKS_TALE_HERCULES
The Monk's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
castration of royal children, furnace threat, and royal killing.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MONKS_TALE_NEBUCHADNEZZAR_AND_BALTHASAR
The Monk's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
repeated murder, assassination, burning, poisoning, hanging, torture, and war-death examples.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MONKS_TALE_NERO_HOLOFERNES_ANTIOCHUS_CAESAR_CROESUS_PEDRO_PIERRE_BARNABO
The Monk's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
child starvation, children dying in the father's lap, and cannibalism-adjacent language.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MONKS_TALE_UGOLINO
The Monk's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
repeated non-graphic war/conquest references and sexual vice references across historical examples.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MONKS_TALE_CONQUEST_AND_TRAGIC_CATALOG
The Nun's Priest's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
bloody murder, body hidden in a dung cart, torture, and hanging of offenders.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_NUNS_PRIESTS_TALE_MURDER_DREAM_EXEMPLUM
The Nun's Priest's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
Priam's killing, Carthage burning, suicide by fire, and Nero's killings in rhetorical comparisons.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_NUNS_PRIESTS_TALE_HISTORICAL_VIOLENCE_COMPARISONS
The Nun's Priest's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
moderate animal peril, throat-seizing, threat of being eaten, and pursuit.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_NUNS_PRIESTS_TALE_CHANTICLEER_AND_FOX
The Nun's Priest's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
animal fable includes sexualized courtly language and brief drunkenness/medical references.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_NUNS_PRIESTS_TALE_PARAMOURS_AND_DRUNKENNESS_REFERENCES
The Second Nun's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
martyrdom beheadings after refusal to sacrifice.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_SECOND_NUNS_TALE_VALERIAN_AND_TIBURCE
The Second Nun's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
fatal beating with lead whips.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_SECOND_NUNS_TALE_MAXIMUS
The Second Nun's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
attempted burning in a bath, repeated neck blows, blood gathered, and prolonged dying.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_SECOND_NUNS_TALE_CECILIA
The Second Nun's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
virginity/marriage-bed context and threat that a husband would kill if another lover were involved.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_SECOND_NUNS_TALE_MARITAL_CHASTITY_AND_THREATS
The Canon's Yeoman's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
policy-dependent coarse bodily and hazardous-material language, including dung, urine, corrosives, arsenic, sulfur, and explosive laboratory mishaps.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_CANONS_YEOMANS_TALE_ALCHEMY_WORKROOM
The Canon's Yeoman's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
deception, threats, curses, and financial exploitation; included only if the adopted standard treats criminal fraud or hazardous experimentation as content-relevant.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_CANONS_YEOMANS_TALE_FRAUD_PLOT
The Manciple's Tale
Level 4: No Minors
Adult content. No child under 18.
adultery/intercourse explicitly reported by the crow.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MANCIPLES_TALE_PHOEBUSS_WIFE
The Manciple's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
rage killing after the crow reports adultery.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MANCIPLES_TALE_PHOEBUS_KILLS_WIFE
The Manciple's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
suicidal language and violent punishment of the crow.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MANCIPLES_TALE_PHOEBUSS_REMORSE
The Manciple's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
drunkenness, alcohol use, coarse insults, and fall from horse.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MANCIPLES_TALE_COOK_IN_PROLOGUE
The Manciple's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
sex-based contempt and adultery warnings in the tale's moral frame.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_MANCIPLES_TALE_MISOGYNISTIC_EXEMPLUM
The Parson's Tale
Level 4: No Minors
Adult content. No child under 18.
full vice taxonomy includes fornication, adultery, incest, maiden/virginity status, and other sexual-circumstance confession categories; use Skeat for exact line-level citations.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_PARSONS_TALE_LECHERY_SECTION
The Parson's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
sustained graphic torment, fire, devils, worms, hunger, nakedness, filth, and body-suffering imagery.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_PARSONS_TALE_HELL_AND_PUNISHMENT_IMAGERY
The Parson's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
manslaughter, murderers, revenge, rancor, and violent sin catalog.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_PARSONS_TALE_WRATH_AND_HOMICIDE_SECTION
The Parson's Tale
Level 3: Minor Restricted
Under 18 requires guidance of a parent or guardian.
haircloth/mail on naked flesh, breast-beating, scourging with rods, and bodily suffering.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_PARSONS_TALE_BODILY_PENANCE_SECTION
The Parson's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
drunkenness, alcohol abuse, gluttony, and loss of reason through drink.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_PARSONS_TALE_GLUTTONY_AND_DRUNKENNESS_SECTION
The Parson's Tale
Level 2: Teen Guidance
Some content may not be appropriate for children under 13.
broad moral catalog of pride, envy, anger, sloth, avarice, gluttony, and lechery.
Canonical key: CANTERBURY_TALES.THE_PARSONS_TALE_CONFESSION_AND_VICE_CATALOG