Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales has been hit with a trigger warning by a leading university over “expressions of Christian faith”, it has emerged. The University of Nottingham put ...

Composed between 1387 and 1400, “The Canterbury Tales” narrates the adventures of various characters on a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral from London, with tales featuring figures such as the Wife ...

The Canterbury Tales (1972) is a bold and artistic film adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s collection of work of the same name. The film follows a group of pilgrims journeying to the shrine of ...

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.

Poem of the Day: ‘Canterbury Tales’ In an era when French and Latin were the languages officially inscribed for poetic expression, the English of The Canterbury Tales is the English of an emerging ...

Joan Acocella writes on Marion Turner’s “The Wife of Bath: A Biography,” which surveys the “Canterbury Tales” character’s literary influence and the lives of women in Chaucer’s time.

Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" were written in the 14th century in the wake of the bubonic plague. On a recent trip to London, Here & Now's Scott Tong met with medieval scholars to learn about ...

Mike Poulton ’s excellent adaptation of The Canterbury Tales began life as a two-parter for the Royal Shakespeare Company some five years ago, but for all that this abbreviated version emerges as a ...

Arizona's Republican-dominated Legislature is advancing a bill that critics say would ban books like The Grapes of Wrath and The Canterbury Tales from classrooms because of their portrayals of sex.

For an evening of bawdy humour of the type enjoyed 600 years ago, see Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales adapted for stage by Mike Poulton and performed by Northern Broadsides with the New Vic theatre. In ...