Chaucer gets a 21st-century reboot in Zadie Smith’s rollicking verse drama, which will be playing at the American Repertory Theater’s Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge from Feb. 25 to March 18. “The Wife ...

There are 32 pilgrims who set out on the journey that frames Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,” with two more coming along later. Many of these are mere cyphers (like the five guildsmen, not differentiated ...

Prolific British author Doherty, whose historicals have ranged as far back in time as ancient Egypt and the age of Alexander the Great, offers an entertaining medieval mystery, the fifth in a series ...