Canterbury Tales

Newest Review: ... over again, and again, and again... Highly recommended! Thanks for reading! (Sorry for the length, but there are SIX of them, remember.) ****** UPDATE: I've now read a good translation of the Canterbury Tales. Since some of you asked, here is what I can say about how these stories as compared to the original are as follows: These versions seem to have taken the most essential parts of each of the original tales upon which to base their scripts, with the exception of the Wife of Bath, which is actually based on the original Wife of Bath's prologue (about her own life), and not on her tale at all. I found that the Knight's Tale actually ... more

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Canterbury Tales: You Canter Bury These Tales (2198 words)
by - written on 11/08/05 (Very useful, 1283 readings)
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I call myself an uneducated poet, since I write poetry more instinctively without having had the benefit of any formal education in poetry. As such, I am ashamed to say that I've never read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. (UPDATE: This is no longer the case - see more update, below.) But being an avid fan of BBC dramas, when I saw the previews of this six-part mini-series, I knew I had to move hell or high water to see it! After doing so, I was both shocked and appalled that no one had reviewed it or even asked for it to be put up as a category here on DooYoo, so I took the initiative and here you are - my review of the BBC's 2003 version of Canterbury Tales. The ... Read the complete review

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