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Poetry & Drama
Compiled here are some of Chaucer's shorter poems. These poems are all written using the Dream Vision. To name a few of these poems: The Book of Duchesse, The Parliament of Fowls, The Legend of Good Women, The House of Fame... See More
Classics
This classic work of medieval literature features the pious and profane stories of commoners on a pilgrimage in fourteenth-century England. One of the most famous works of literature written in Middle English, The... See More
Poetry & Drama
'Nevill Coghill's easy, seductive translation ensures that this, the most popular work in English Literature - now 600 years old - will run through yet more centuries' Melvyn Bragg In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created... See More
Poetry & Drama
At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they set out on their journey... See More
Poetry & Drama
Set against the epic backdrop of the battle of Troy, Troilus and Criseyde is an evocative story of love and loss. When Troilus, the son of Priam, falls in love with the beautiful Criseyde, he is able to win her heart with... See More
Poetry & Drama
A landmark dramatisation for the Royal Shakespeare Company of one of the foundation stones of English literature. This two-play adaptation of Chaucer'sCanterbury Tales encompasses all 23 stories. All the famous characters... See More
Classics
The Wyves Tale of Bathe and prologue are among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. They give insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and are probably of interest to Chaucer himself, for the... See More
Poetry & Drama
This edition presents all of the surviving manuscripts, together with textual apparatus and commentary. The poem is also presented in parallel with its principal source, Boccaccio's "Filostrato", enabling the reader to... See More
Children's eBooks
A lively re-telling of the medieval classic. One fine spring day, thirty pilgrims set off from Harry Bailey's inn in Southwark for the shrine of Thomas A Becket in Canterbury. The innkeeper makes an offer that none of the... See More
Classics
A group of pilgrims bound for Canterbury Cathedral agree to pass the weary miles by taking turns at storytelling. The travelers ? noble, coarse, jolly, and pious ? offer a vibrant portrait of fourteenth-century English life... See More
Poetry & Drama
Begun as an ambitious project by the versatile English courtier, diplomat, philosopher, and author Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century, "The Canterbury Tales" follows a group of people on their pilgrimage to the Cathedral... See More
Poetry & Drama
Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love. In The Book of the... See More
Poetry & Drama
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of... See More
ClassicsYou get the full original text of The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue and Frame Story by Geoffrey Chaucer interwoven with a smart, plain-spoken guide to the characters, quotes, themes, symbols, and more from Shmoop... See More
Poetry & Drama
At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, in the London of the late 1300s, a band of men and women from all walks of life have gathered to begin a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas à Becket at Canterbury. To relieve the tedium of... See More
Poetry & Drama
"A truly remarkable achievement." -- Barry Unsworth In the tradition of Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and Marie Borroff's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sheila Fisher's The Selected Canterbury Tales is a vivid, lively, and... See More
Poetry & Drama
In the fourteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, who served three kings as a customs official and special envoy, virtually invented English poetry. He did so by wedding the language of common speech to metrical verse, creating a... See More
Poetry & Drama
Geoffrey Chaucer is rightly regarded as the Father of English Literature. His observant wit, his narrative skill and characterization, his linguistic invention, have been a well from which the language's greatest writers... See More
Poetry & DramaThis new addition to the Longman Critical Readers Series provides an overview of the various ways in which modern critical theory has influenced Chaucer Studies over the last fifteen years. There is still a sense in the... See More
Poetry & Drama
Troilus and Criseyde is an epic poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war during the Siege of Troy. It was composed using rime... See More
Poetry & Drama
'Whoever best acquits himself, and tells The most amusing and instructive tale, Shall have a dinner, paid for by us all... ' In Chaucer's most ambitious poem, The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387), a group of pilgrims assembles in... See More
Poetry & Drama
"Dryden's Palamon and Arcite" by John Dryden, Geoffrey Chaucer. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction... See More
Poetry & Drama
Troilus and Criseyde is an epic poem by Geoffrey Chaucer. Written in rime royal, it depicts the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war during the siege of Troy. See More
ClassicsChaucer for Children: A Golden Key is an adapted version of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, the prominent English author. The book contains some of the most famous Canterbury Tales in Middle English alongside the modern... See More
Poetry & DramaAbout Sheila Fisher's translation Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter, Sheila Fisher's vivid, lively, and readable translation makes the poetic artistry of The Canterbury Tales accessible to a contemporary ear and invites... See More
History & Criticism
"This book has been more helpful to the students -- both the better ones and the lesser ones -- than any other book I have ever used in any of my classes in my more than a quarter century of university teaching."... See More
British & Irish
What do women want? That is the life-or-death question at the heart of Geoffrey Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale." What do men want? The clichés and stereotypes cut both ways. The Father of English Poetry imagines how a woman... See More
Literary Fiction
(Contains strong language) Now with complete dramatic text. Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Miller's Prologue and Tale", from The Canterbury Tales, clearly translated into Modern English, while faithfully interpreting and... See More
Poetry & Drama
The Book of the Duchess is a surreal poem that was presumably written as an elegy for Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster's (the wife of Geoffrey Chaucer's patron, the royal Duke of Lancaster, John of Gaunt) death in 1368 or 1369... See More
Poetry & Drama
All the Canterbury Tales: Modern Spelling and Original Words. A Reader-Friendly Edition. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales -- witty, bawdy, zany, satirical, and literary. From the late medieval period on, Chaucer has been... See More