The Canterbury Tales

Posted on 07 July 2017 by Geoffrey Chaucer

Each is presented in the original language, with normalized spelling and substantial annotations for modern readers Among the new added to the Second Edition are the much requested Merchant s Tale and the Tale of Sir Thopas Sources and Backgrounds are included for the General Prologue and for most of the tales, enabling students to understandThe Canterbury Tales in light of relevant medieval ideas and attitudes and inviting comparison between Chaucer s work and his sources Criticism includes nine essays, four of them new to this edition, by leading Chaucerians, among them F R H DuBoulay, E Talbot Donaldson, Barbara Nolani, and Lee Patterson A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. New Download The Canterbury Tales [ Author ] Geoffrey Chaucer [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Writing a review of The Canterbury Tales is difficult, not because the book collection isn t worthy of a review, but because it is so widely variant and has so many nuances to be discussed For those who don t know, The Canterbury Tales is a book containing a bunch of stories told by individuals traveling together on a pilgrimage to Canterbury The book is written in the late 1300s with the pilgrimage set in the same basic time It begins with a General Prologue providing a description of ea Writing a review of The Canterbury Tales is difficult, not because the book collection isn t worthy of a review, but because it is so widely variant and has so many nuances to be discussed For those who don t know, The Canterbury Tales is a book containing a bunch of stories told by individuals traveling together on a pilgrimage to Canterbury The book is written in the late 1300s with the pilgrimage set in the same basic time It begins with a General Prologue providing a description of each...Finally finished this book after spending almost three months on it It was pretty interesting I think I would ve preferred a translated version because I struggled with the old english But our discussions in class about it helped and it was pretty funny Who kn...I enjoyed Chaucer, especially the Knight s Tale There is a study to be done on rival views of marriage in the Tales, though I am not inclined to do it Whatstruck me was the consistency of happy endings There is one tale in which a prince marries a commoner, then tests her love by pretending to kill their children to see if she will continue to submit to him He lets years pass, and the people come to hate him while she continues to love him At this point, the Tale felt like something E I enjoyed Chaucer, especially the Knight s Tale There is a study to be done on rival views of marriage in the Tales, though I am not inclined to do it Whatstruck me was the consistency of happy endings There is one tale in which a prince marries a commoner, then tests her love by pretending to kill their children to see if she will continue to submit to him He lets years pass, and the people come to hate him while she continues to love him At this point, the Tale felt like something Edgar Allen Poe wrote, and I expected the Tale to end with the prince recognizing that he had become evil and no longer merited the love of such a queen as she, perhaps being overthrown by her as a test to see if he loved her in the process Something like that, some series of events in which the roles are reversed and the lesson bends back upon its teacher Nothing of the sort happens The Prince eventual...I suppose it s a crime for an English Lit major to say this, but I m not the biggest fan ever of Chaucer We re studying the General Prologue, The Reeve s Tale and The Franklin s Tale, and none of it inspires me with great l...Maybe one two many fart jokes for me, but it was still goodOk, so, this is another one of those authors you should really just skip if you re not a huge literature geek.I read this in the original old English, which was well, not to put too fine a point on it, pretty freaking hard I mean, you get into the language after a while, and it runs a littlesmoothly, but still Definitely not light bedtime reading.For me, reading The Canterbury Tales was chiefly interesting in an historical, literary sense The tales themselves are too dated in thei Ok, so, this is another one of those authors you should really just skip if you re not a huge literature geek.I read this in the original old English, which was well, not to put too fine a point on it, pretty freaking hard I mean, you get into the language after a while, and it runs a littlesmoothly, but still Definitely not light bedtime reading.For me, reading The Canterbury Tales was chiefly interesting in an historical, literary sense The tales themselves are too dated in their ideas particularly about gender roles and morality to have any real applicability in today s society, and I feel like their entertainment value is chiefly rooted in their usually moral themes So a couple of the tales were kind of funny, but mostly they were just, well meh I realise this is not a strong literary point But still Being a huge nerd power to us , I also decided to read ...Since I was hanging around Kent and had been walking the ancient pilgrimage route, I thought I should get to know its most famous literary product I finally found this book in a charity shop in Canterbury itself, and it seemed perfect while it only contains fifteen of the tales and some of those excerpts , fully half the book is made up of contextual information and analysis, so I could truly understand the work.I was a little intimidated at first at the idea of reading in Middle English, bu Since I was hanging around Kent and had been walking the ancient pilgrimage route, I thought I should get to know its most famous literary product I finally found this book in a charity shop in Canterbury itself, and it seemed perfect while it only contains fifteen of the tales and some of those excerpts , fully half the book is made up of contextual information and analysis, so I could truly understand the work.I was a little intimidated at first at the idea of reading in Middle English, but soon found that although it does take an effort...Gadzooks I ve finished the Canterbury Tales.I found it best to read it aloud until I was comfortable with the Middle English, once the rhyme patterns start to get established it s much easier to read because the brain predicts what the couplet should end with even if it s spelled in unexpected ways I don t know how well this would work if you don t have an English accent to start with I also used Google reading the synopsis first so that I knew the Gadzooks I ve finished the Canterbury Tales.I found it best to read it aloud until I was comfortable with the Middle English, once the rhyme patterns start to get established it s much easier to read because the brain predicts what the couplet should end with even if it s spelled in unexpected ways I don t know how well this would work if you don t have an English accent to start with I also used Google reading the synopsis first so that I knew the outline before reading and could makesense of it But there ...Did not read all of this, but read the a good bit of it for a class I m so glad I read it in a class as well Certain tales areenjoyable than others, but it truly is remarkable how enjoyable it still is to read today The Middle English gets easier to read the further you get into it, and the way Chaucer works with language is remarkable and subversive I read the General Prologue, the Knight s Tale, the Miller s Tale, the Wife of Bath s Tale, the Pardoner s Tale, and the Nun s Priest s T Did not read all of this, but read the a good bit of it for a class I m so glad I read it in a class as well Certain tales areenjoyable than others, but it truly is remarkable how enjoyable it still is to read today The Middle English gets easier to read the further you get into it, and the way...Chaucer s Canterbury Tales provide a vivid and powerful glimpse into the past reading them is like entering a literary time machine The selected excerpts are presented in Middle English with pronunciation hints and New English explanations As well there are plenty of notes and references to aid in understanding.The book begins with an introduction explaining the editors sources and r...

English, Middle (1100-1500)
07 July 2017

Geoffrey Chaucer