The Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" "Racine Library List" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - Adventure" |
| Pages: | 508 |
| Year of Publication: | 1387 |
| Date Read: | 02/20/1994 |
| Notes: | The framing device for the stories is a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas à Becket in Canterbury, Kent. The 30 pilgrims who undertake the journey agree to hold a storytelling contest as they travel. The 24 tales present a highly varied collection of literary genres: religious legend, courtly romance, racy tale in verse, saint’s life, allegory, beast fable, medieval sermon and alchemical account. COMMENTS — If you want a challenge, read an untranslated edition in the Middle English it was written in. Here are the first few lines to get you started. Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote/ The droghte of March hath perced to the roote/ And bathed every veyne in swich licour,/ Of which vertu engendred is the flour … |
| My Rating: | 6 |