Geoffrey Chaucer's “Canterbury Tales” are part of the literary canon. Working through the collection of 14th-century stories, written in Middle English, is practically a rite of passage for anyone ...

A confirmed sadist could find many things to enjoy in the pages of The Canterbury Tales. As Chaucer’s pilgrims take turns telling stories to while away the hours on their long walk to the shrine of St ...

In 1985, Mr. Kilinski, my senior-year high school English teacher, put Geoffrey Chaucer’s magnum opus “The Canterbury Tales” on the syllabus. The plot: A motley crew of people from different walks of ...

After decades of research and a bit of help from the late Terry Jones, a 600-year-old manuscript comes to life. Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led CNET's coverage of privacy and ...

A University of Saskatchewan-led international team has produced the first web and mobile phone app of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales--the first major literary work augmented by new ...

The Canterbury Tales (1972) is a bold and artistic film adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s collection of work of the same name. The film follows a group of pilgrims journeying to the shrine of Saint ...

Geoffrey Chaucer’s framework narrative of a bunch of people headed to church while indulging in some zany, sexy stories of sin gets a broad, modern spin in ”The Canterbury Tales,” onstage at ...

SINCE 2015 Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group, a charity, has organised a storytelling walk inspired by “The Canterbury Tales”. The accounts in Geoffrey Chaucer’s poem, as narrated by fictional pilgrims ...

The Middle Ages, England. Stories of peasants, noblemen, clergy, and demons are interwoven with brief scenes from Chaucer's home life and experiences implied to be the basis for the Canterbury Tales.

Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" were written in the 14th century in the wake of the bubonic plague. On a recent trip to London, Here & Now's Scott Tong met with medieval scholars to learn about the ...

In this video, I take a quick train ride from London to the medieval city of Canterbury — a place packed with history, charm, ...

The life of Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1340-1400), often labeled “the father of English poetry,” ought to be an open book: He is mentioned almost 500 times in contemporary records, far more than ...