News

A five-part NPR series retraces the steps of Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales to explore Britain in the early 21st century. It offers a portrait of a changing nation some 600 ...
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 ...
The author’s conveyances along her Modern Pilgrims’ Way included a 1970 MG BGT.Credit... Supported by By Nina Burleigh Visuals by Christopher H. Warren “The Canterbury Tales” — the ...
News Tales from Canterbury Posted 4:04 p.m. Aug 1, 2008 - Updated 2:27 p.m. Aug 2, 2008 Canterbury is special – really special. It was special to Saint Thomas Becket. It was special to Geoffrey ...
Follow in the footsteps of The Canterbury Tales and visit Kent, the Garden of England. Hot on the heels of the BBC's adaptation of Chaucer's classic, Kent Tourism Alliance is trumpeting the area's ...
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.
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 ...
Geoffrey Chaucer's “Canterbury Tales” are part of the literary canon. Working through the collection of 14th-century stories, written in Middle English, is practically a rite of passage for anyone ...