Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories by Geoffrey Chaucer, originally written in Middle English. This podcast presents a modern English reading of the tales, which are told by pilgrims traveling to Canterbury. The stories cover themes like courtly love, treachery, and avarice, and include various genres such as romance, sermon, and fabliau. The version read here was edited by D. Laing Purves for popular perusal.
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The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained inside a frame tale and told by a group of pilgrims on their way from Southwark to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The themes o
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The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained inside a frame tale and told by a group of pilgrims on their way from Southwark to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The themes o
Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer - Part 1
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained inside a frame tale and told by a group of pilgrims on their way from Southwark to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The themes o
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