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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 ...
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 ...
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.
What did the former prioress say in the recording? The audio clip, which was obtained by CNA from the Fort Worth Diocese, revealed an April 24 interview between Fort Worth Bishop Olson and Gerlach.
Internet users will be able from Friday to view the first editions of The Canterbury Tales online rather than having to visit the British Library where the original versions are kept. Geoffrey Chaucer ...
Dreamed up by Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales more than 600 years ago, the Wife of Bath was known for her lusty appetites, gossipy asides and fondness for wine.
The Canterbury Tales consists of 24 short stories written between 1387 to 1400, the year that Chaucer died. It is considered an unfinished work. ...