A New App Guides Readers Through Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’ The tool includes a 45-minute audio performance of the work’s General Prologue in Middle English Brigit Katz - Correspondent ...

In his poem Troilus and Criseyde, the character Pandarus tells the story of Wade to a woman to “stir her passions,” per the statement. And in The Canterbury Tales ’ “ The Merchant’s Tale ,” Wade is ...

The homicide was the subject of Murder in the Cathedral, a verse drama by T.S. Eliot, and was more famously immortalized in Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14th-century work The Canterbury Tales, which was ...

Since Chaucer left The Canterbury Tales unfinished at his death, no single text of the Tales exists. Scholars have to reconstruct the text from over 80 distinct manuscripts, mostly written by hand ...

Falk and Wade have also translated nikeres as “sea-snakes” instead of “sprites.” In Old and Middle English, the term was used ...

Chaucer's Miller, from 'The Canterbury Tales,' whose story was dirty enough to be censored from high school English class in the '80s. A woodcut from Richard Pynson's 1492 edition.

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.

Now here comes Peter Ackroyd, novelist, biographer and historian, with “The Canterbury Tales” for a new generation — it’s Chaucer in vivid, expressive English exactly as you speak it.

So begins “The Canterbury Tales,” a collection of 24 stories that runs to more than 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. Though it looks odd to our ...

A festive parade that takes crowds back to the Middle Ages is celebrating its 10th year. With historical links to the likes of Geoffrey Chaucer and Thomas Becket, Canterbury ’s Medieval Pageant ...