Geoffrey Chaucer

If you want to understand the daily life and psychology of the late Middle Ages, Ronald Ecker’s classic translation of The Canterbury Tales provides one of the very best means of doing so....

In this edition, we hear, translated into modern English, 20-some tales, told in the voices of knight and merchant, wife and miller, squire and nun, and many more....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales I: Modern Verse Translation collection....

Chaucer's greatest work, written towards the end of the fourteenth century, paints a brilliant picture of medieval life, society and values. The stories range from the romantic...

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales III: Modern Verse Translation collection....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales I: Modern Verse Translation collection....

The Canterbury Tales, written near the end of Chaucer's life and hence towards the close of the 14th century, is perhaps the greatest English literary work of the Middle Ages....

Geoffrey Chaucer, born around 1340, was the first great English poet. The immense popularity of the "Canterbury Tales" is shown by the number of...

In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce....

Considered one of Chaucer’s finest poems, second only to The Canterbury Tales in richness and depth, Troilus and Cressida is a tragic love story set against the background of the siege of Troy by the Greeks....

Set during the fierce Trojan War, Troilus and Criseyde is the poignant tale of love won and lost.....

Three tales from The Canterbury Tales, read in the original Middle English by Richard Bebb under the direction of Britain's foremost Chaucer scholar, Derek Brewer....

The Knight's Tale of medieval wars and chivalry is the first tale told to the pilgrims as they set out to Canterbury....

Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, a collection of narratives written between 1387 and 1400, tells of a group of 30 people from all layers of society....

Four more delightful tales from one of the most entertaining storytellers of all time....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales III: Modern Verse Translation collection....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales III: Modern Verse Translation collection....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales III: Modern Verse Translation collection....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales III: Modern Verse Translation collection....

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales III: Modern Verse Translation collection....