Remember struggling over “The Canterbury Tales” in high school? It was a labor of laughs borne only for the puerile joy of reading about farts and arse-kissing. And there was this weird ...

Arizona's Republican-dominated Legislature is advancing a bill that critics say would ban books like The Grapes of Wrath and The Canterbury Tales from classrooms because of their portrayals of sex.

Nottingham University in England has ignited a debate after issuing a trigger warning on Geoffrey Chaucer’s renowned work, “The Canterbury Tales.” The warning informs students of the religious content ...

And in an era when French and Latin were the languages officially inscribed for poetic expression, the English of the Canterbury Tales is the English of an ... BOTTUM Mr. Bottum is the author of eight ...

SINCE 2015 Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group, a charity, has organised a storytelling walk inspired by “The Canterbury ... tales are collected in volumes published by Comma Press; the latest book ...

There are a few things in our culture that almost no one dislikes. Dolly Parton, fried rice . . . I can think of something else, too. For this item the constituency is smaller—you probably ...

In her new book, The Wife of Bath ... The horniest character in The Canterbury Tales helped inspire James Joyce's Molly Bloom and many more prurient portrayals, including in the early 17 th ...

One of the most humorous in Chaucer’s book of tales is the one about himself. Chaucer wrote himself into The Canterbury Tales as a character, with one key and hilarious difference: The Chaucer ...