Chaucer's Miller, from 'The Canterbury Tales,' whose story was dirty enough to be censored from high school English class in the '80s. A woodcut from Richard Pynson's 1492 edition.

Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales has been hit with a trigger warning by a leading university over “expressions of Christian faith”, it has emerged. The University of Nottingham put ...

Dreamed up by Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales more than 600 years ago, the Wife of Bath was known for her lusty appetites, gossipy asides and fondness for wine.

Complete Information About Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales in Atlanta at The Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse. Join us for a medieval romp through boisterous and bawdy olde England. Drawing on the ...

The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse will present Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, adapted by John Stephens, September 7-29, 2024. The production is directed ...

University Puts Trigger Warning on Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’ Over ‘Expressions of Christian Faith’ Notably, the university’s warning does not mention the anti-Semitic or sexually explicit elements ...

The Wife of Bath, pictured in the Ellesmere Chaucer manuscript, ca. 1400 Photo: Huntington Library There are 32 pilgrims who set out on the journey that frames Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales ...

With “The Canterbury Tales,” which Chaucer wrote during the last decade or so of his life—he died in 1400, leaving it unfinished—he went a long way toward inventing the novel.

That’s how Geoffrey Chaucer spelled “book” in his Canterbury Tales, 625 years ago. Can you give me a hand, here, Geoffrey?

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories written by poet and author Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century, framed as a storytelling contest among pilgrims journeying to the shrine of ...