Stories from Chaucer
Re-told from The Canterbury Tales

This 1926 book contains selections from The Canterbury Tales translated into Modern English for the younger reader.

Margaret C. Macaulay (Edited by)

9781107639621, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 February 2012

206 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 1.2 cm, 0.23 kg

First published in 1926, as the second edition of a 1911 original, this book contains selections from The Canterbury Tales translated into Modern English for the younger reader. Numerous illustrations and a pronouncing dictionary of proper names are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in The Canterbury Tales and pedagogical approaches to Chaucer.

The prologue
Part I. The First Day: 1. The Knight's Tale of Palamon and Arcite
Part II. The Second Day: 2. The Man of Law's Tale of Constance
3. Chaucer and The Host
4. The Monk's Tale of the Falls of Great Men
5. The Nun's Priest's Tale of Chanticleer
Part III. The Third Day: 6. The Wife of Bath's prologue
7. The Wife of Bath's Tale
8. The Friar's Tale of the Summoner and the Fiend
9. The Friar's Tale of the Summoner
10. The Clerk of Oxford's Tale of Patient Grieselda
Part IV. The Fourth Day: 11. The Squires Tale of Cambuscan
12. The Pardoner's prologue
13. The Pardoner's Tale of the three revellers
14. The Canon's Yeoman
15. The Manciple and the cook
16. The Manciple's Tale
17. The Parson's Tale
18. Dictionary
19. Illustrations.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]