Chaucer, Geoffrey

Human history is stained all too frequently with crimes so enormous in scale that we find them ungraspable: genocides, pogroms, mass deportations, crimes against whole races and whole nationalities.

Presents a selection of four stories from the "Canterbury Tales," written by Chaucer in the fourteenth century, in which a group of pilgrims share their tales while on their way to the shrine of St. Thomas at Canterbury.

Eight British actors play the parts of Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrims in seven of his "Canterbury Tales": "The Friar's Tale," "The Summoner's Tale," "The Lawyer's Tale," "The Seaman's Tale," "The Prioress's Tale," "The Manciple's Tale," and "The Physician's Tale.".

Presents a line-by-line translation of nine of Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", with both the original Middle English text and the modern translations of the stories.

A modern English translation, background information and glossary accompany the original Middle English text of Chaucer's poem about travelers on a pilgrimage.