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Chaucer Reads Chaucer: "The Miller’s Tale"

In Queen Victoria’s day, this is the one they expurgated from the complete Canterbury Tales; fortunately, the modern sensibility responds with the intended laughter at the most notoriously misdirected kiss in European literature. Here the tale is told as Chaucer might have told it—in Middle English (with modern English subtitles) and appropriate costume, to an audience of contemporaries who shared Chaucer’s own astonishing combination of grossness and delicacy. An excellent lesson in both literature and language. (80 minutes)

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Item#: BVL1742

VHS ISBN 978-0-89113-228-8
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-2435-7


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