Recommended Reading for class: The Canterbury Tales, Oxford World Classics. This book runs about $9, but the translation is modern. Other editions are fine to read, but make sure the translation is enjoyable. I will be referencing this edition throughout the six weeks.
An Online Resource
Elf Edition of the book
This site has both the Middle English and Modern English edition of the Tales. You can navigate to any section of the book.
Middle English Version with Notes
The Canterbury Tales Project
Caxton's Canterbury Tales, a comparison
Derek Pearsall's Bibliography - scholarly articles on the tales
Chaucer read aloud
Europe of the Middle Ages
Re: Wife of Bath: On Jerome
Margery Kemp (writing of a Medieval woman)
Geoffrey Chaucer Online (a plethora of resources, go wild...I will once school is over!)
In answer to the plucking question: Medieval Hair
Fun Resources:
Medieval Cookery (all about Medieval food)
Coming Soon...A taste of the next few weeks...
Week 4
Suggested Reading:
Man of Law's Tale
Emare Full text online, use link to access. (This is lengthy and in Middle English but is an easier text to read and is the source for the Man of Law's Tale.)
Week 5
Suggested Reading:
Wife of Bath
Prioress
2nd Nun's Tale
Week 6
Clerk's Tale
Pardoner
Chaucer's Retractions
Week 1
Suggested Reading:
Introduction to the tales and General Prologue
Questions to Ponder:
What can we understand of Medieval society from this piece of literature?
How can we begin to explore literature and the characters within that literature as separate from the author, yet search for the author within the work? In other words, is an author a sum of his characters?
Works to consider:
Giovanni Boccaccio's fourteenth century work, The Decameron, has a frame tale and stories are told within that frame..
Week 2
Suggested Reading:
The Knight's Tale
If time, The Squire's Tale
This week we will be discussing the Knight's Tale as well as some selections from Shakespeare's Two Noble Kinsmen
Full texts from Project Gutenberg: Four Arthurian Romances, Chretien de Troyes circa 1170
Boethius: Consolation of Philosophy
Questions to Ponder:
How does a story change from century to century and from writer to writer?
Works to consider:
Video: A modern rendition of the tale
Week 3
Suggested Reading:
The Miller's Tale, The Reeve's Tale, The Cook's Tale and the Nun's Priest's Tale
Questions to Ponder:
How does Chaucer use humor in these tales?
Works to consider:
The Presentation:
Suggested Reading:
Man of Law's Tale
Emare Full text online, use link to access. (This is lengthy and in Middle English but is an easier text to read and is the source for the Man of Law's Tale.)
Week 5
Suggested Reading:
Wife of Bath
Prioress
2nd Nun's Tale
Week 6
Clerk's Tale
Pardoner
Chaucer's Retractions
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