Remember struggling over “The Canterbury Tales” in high school? It was a labor of laughs borne only for the puerile joy of reading about farts and arse-kissing. And there was this weird recognition: ...

Chaucer himself was a translator, people forget, his most important work along those lines being “The Romance of the Rose” and Boethius’ “The Consolation of Philosophy.” Some of the tales that appear ...

Geoffrey Chaucer's “Canterbury Tales” are part of the literary canon. Working through the collection of 14th-century stories, written in Middle English, is practically a rite of passage for anyone ...

There’s old school hip-hop, and then there’s old, old, old, old school. In this case, don’t think the south Bronx, think Medieval England. With Baba Brinkman’s performance of the “Rap Canterbury Tales ...

On a damp spring morning, I found myself walking through the cobbled streets of Canterbury, the ancient cathedral’s spires peeking out from behind half-timbered houses. Nestled in southeastern England ...

Geoffrey Chaucer is known as the “father of English literature” for his medieval classic The Canterbury Tales, a work that encouraged writers of his time to write in Middle English rather than French.

A confirmed sadist could find many things to enjoy in the pages of The Canterbury Tales. As Chaucer’s pilgrims take turns telling stories to while away the hours on their long walk to the shrine of St ...