2000, 652 pages.
The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century, during the time of the Hundred Years' War. The tales (mostly written in verse, although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel...
Penguin Classics, 2005. — 1328 p. — ISBN10: 014042234X, ISBN13: 9780140422344 One of the greatest and most ambitious works in English literature, in the original Middle English The Canterbury Tales depicts a storytelling competition between pilgrims drawn from all ranks of society. The tales are as various as the pilgrims themselves, encompassing comedy, pathos, tragedy, and...
Puffin, 2015. — 116 p. — ASIN B00ZBDMJ00 A lively re-telling of the medieval classic. One fine spring day, thirty pilgrims set off from Harry Bailey's inn in Southwark for the shrine of Thomas A Becket in Canterbury. The innkeeper makes an offer that none of the travellers can refuse: a free dinner at his inn, on their return, to the person who can tell the best story. So...
Retold by Sarah Courtauld, Dr. Abigail Wheatley, Susanna Davidson. Illustrated by Ian McNee About The Canterbury Tales Prologue The Knight’s Tale: Chivalry and Rivalry The Miller’s Tale: A Barrel of Laughs The Nun’s Priest’s Tale: The Nightmare Beast of the Firebrand Tail The Reeve’s Tale: A Racket at the Mill The Scholar’s Tale: The Test of a Good Wife The Wife of Bath’s Tale:...
"Troilus and Criseyde" (Modern English: /ˈtrɔɪləs ən ˈkrɛsɪdə/) is an epic poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war during the Siege of Troy. It was composed using rime royale and probably completed during the mid 1380s. Many Chaucer scholars regard it as the poet's finest work. As a...
Revised edition. — Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University; Medieval Institute Publications, 2009. — vii, 174 p. — (Middle English texts series). On several counts, one particular collection of French lyrics made in France in the late fourteenth century, University of Pennsylvania MS 15, is the most likely repository of Chaucer's French poems. It is the largest manuscript...
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