Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance.

In The Canterbury Tales , Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. This version of the text has been translated into modern English by Nevill Coghill.

This peerless edition of Chaucer's complete works is the fruit of many years' study and is widely regarded as the standard text. Edited and annotated to a high standard, and with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon, the Riverside Chaucer is now the indispensable edition for students and readers of Chaucer.

Chaucer's most celebrated work, The Canterbury Tales (c.1387), in which a group of pilgrims entertain each other with stories on the road to Canterbury, is a masterpiece of narration, description, and character portrayal. The tellers and their tales are as fresh and vivid today as they were six centuries ago.

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Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance.

A well-established and respected series with titles in the original Middle English.

Incorporating various styles of Medieval narrative - bawdy anecdote, allegorical fable and courtly romance - this title provides the tales that encompass the blend of universal human themes and individual personal detail.

This work tells the story of 30 pilgrims who meet by chance at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, London, and journey together to the shrine of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury cathedral. To pass the time along the way, they tell stories to one another, shot through with cunning wit and dry humour.

Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance.

Presents a lively, humorous retelling for children of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales .

Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance.

SuperScripts is a brand new series of original drama scripts that have been specifically developed for 11-16 year olds. The plays have all been successfully performed in public, and are sure to motivate pupils of all ages. 'Canterbury Tales'.

Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance.

The RSC's alternative Christmas show this year: a new two-part dramatisation of one of the greatest books in the English language Befell that in that season on that day/ In Southwark at The Tabard - as I lay/ Ready to wenden on my pilgrimage/ To Canterb'ry with full devout courage -/ At night was come into that hostelry/ Well nine-and-twenty in a company/ Of sundry folk, by aventure yfall/ In ...

A well-established and respected series with titles in the original Middle English.

Attempting to bring Chaucer back to life, four medieval alchemists invite a group of Chaucer's best-known pilgrims - the Knight, the Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, the Nun's Priest, and the Miller - to tell Tales. This book features activities that support the KS3 Framework for Teaching English and help students fulfil the Framework objectives.

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) We'll give a free dinner to the person who tells the best story. Now, put up your hands if you agree.' The pilgrims all held up their hands. A group of pilgrims are travelling together for five days from London to Canterbury. On the way, each pilgrim has to tell a story to keep the others amused. Some stories are happy, and some are sad. But ..