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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The Wife of Bath was dreamed up by Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales more than 600 years ago. She has captured countless imaginations since. The character known for her lusty appetites ...
What is a Chanticleer? Chanticleer was the name of a rooster featured as the main character of "The Nun's Priest's Tale," a portion of Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales." In "The Nun's Priest's Tale ...