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There’s always a warm welcome at Trinity Theatre Cowes, the venue for CAODs production of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The bawdy Middle English tales were adapted by the show’s director, Gwen ...
Adam Pinkhurst -- whose name was found by a U.S. handwriting expert -- wrote the 14th century manuscripts of Chaucer’s pilgrims’ stories, the most celebrated work of medieval English literature.
Philip Knox, The “Dialect” of Chaucer's Reeve, The Chaucer Review, Vol. 49, No. 1 (2014), pp. 102-124 ...
Chaucer captured the vividness, humour, bawdiness and poetry of spoken English. That is what makes his Tales so irresistible, according to Terry Jones, ex Python and children's writer.
Alcuin Blamires, Chaucer the Reactionary: Ideology and the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 51, No. 204 (Nov., 2000), pp. 523-539 ...
“The Canterbury Tales,” the collection that every student of English literature has to read, is the ultimate travel story. Winter’s over, spring has sprung, “thanne longen folk to goon on ...
One cheer for Philip Kennicott for calling attention to the anti-Semitic screed in the Royal Shakespeare Company's "Canterbury Tales" ["Chaucer's Slurring Words," Arts, May 7].
In the joyous spirit of Chaucer’s clerk in The Canterbury Tales, the program provides opportunities for innovative collaboration in teaching and learning, enabling our students to explore the creative ...