For our needful information be it said that the tales are six, that their tellers follow the pilgrim road from Winchester to Canterbury, and are in their proper persons: “ the Lady Prioress of ...

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]. But he was off in ...

Many years ago when I taught Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,” a medieval 14th century, often satirical poem, my students and I read the “Tale of the Prioress.” What has this portion of the “Tales” to do ...

A university in England has placed a trigger warning on The Canterbury Tales due to “expressions of Christian faith.” The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories written by poet and ...

The fact that Chaucer wrote in English (now referred to as Middle English), rather than French or Latin like many of his fellow writers, meant that ordinary folk could enjoy the Canterbury Tales ...

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.