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 ...

I assure Free for All letter writer Daniel Klein that other attendees of "The Canterbury Tales" also were surprised and insulted by the decision to stage the grossly anti-Semitic Prioress's tale.

The Chaucer Review, Vol. 56, No. 4, SPECIAL ISSUE: The Ethical Challenge of Chaucerian Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century (2021), pp. 397-412 (16 pages) https ...

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 ...

In 1985, Mr. Kilinski, my senior-year high school English teacher, put Geoffrey Chaucer’s magnum opus “The Canterbury Tales” on the syllabus. The plot: A motley crew of people from different ...

In the latest development in the ongoing dispute between a Texas Carmelite monastery and the Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas, former prioress Theresa Gerlach admitted to sexual misconduct and ...

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 ...

Students studying a module on Geoffrey Chaucer at the University of Nottingham have been issued a trigger warning for ‘expressions of Christian faith’ in his famous Canterbury Tales.

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 ...