Films for the Humanities and Sciences - Chaucer: The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales

Chaucer: The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales

"Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote / The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote," we meet Chaucer and some of his fellow Canterbury pilgrims. Our attention is drawn to Chaucer’s sharply drawn descriptions of these characters and to the language of 14th-century England in which Chaucer wrote his verse. There follows a dramatization of part of "The Pardoner’s Tale" by a group of students who have been examining some of the tales, the characters, and the language ofThe Canterbury Tales . (20 minutes)

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Item#: BVL4081

VHS ISBN 978-1-56950-760-5
DVD ISBN 978-0-7365-7932-2


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