Geoffrey Chaucer
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the medieval poem about a group of travelers on a pilgrimage to Canterbury and the tales they tell each other. With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life-from knight to nun, miller to monk-reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth...
Author
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 22
Publisher
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pub. Date
[1952]
Language
English
Description
Original and modern versions in parallel columns.
Contains both Chaucer's epic poem, detailing tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war during the Siege of Troy, and Canterbury Tales, a frame story of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together.
Author
Series
Washington Square Press book volume 567
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
[1960]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In 1364 England, one of literature's most unforgettable characters--Chaucer's Wife of Bath--tells her story in her own words as she rises through society from a cast-off farm girl to a woman of fortune fighting to control her own life.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to modern readers while preserving the spirit of the original.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In her stage-writing debut, celebrated novelist and essayist Zadie Smith brings to life a comedic and cutting twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath. The Wife of Willesden follows Alvita, a Jamaican-born British woman in her mid-50s, as she tells her life story to a band of strangers in a small pub on the Kilburn High Road. Wearing fake gold chains, dressed in knock-off designer clothes, and speaking in a...
16) Chanticleer
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Childrens Books
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
A proud rooster is tricked by a sly fox.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Pasolini's rendering of several of Chaucer's tales of romance, deception, murder, and lust, told by pilgrims on their way to Canterbury Cathedral during the Middle Ages. The middle film of Pasolini's thematic "Trilogy of Life," the other two films being Decameron and Arabian Nights.
Publisher
Nebraskans for Public Television
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"133 of the world's most famous poems cleverly performed and artistically interpreted by the First Poetry Quartet and celebrity guests ... Dramatic performances by Claire Bloom, LeVar Burton, Robert Culp, Ruby Dee, Henry Fonda, Will Geer, Fred Gwynne, Valerie Harper, Jack Lemmon, Vincent Price, William Shatner, Irene Worth and other celebrities"--Container.