This adaptation of the first two stories from The Canterbury Tales sets out the spoken parts and aligns the spelling of Geoffrey Chaucer’s words with the Oxford English Dictionary, to help distinguish and elucidate the abstruse six-hundred-year-old English and present the original in a new and readable format.

• In The Knight’s Tale, the longest and most philosophical poem of The Canterbury Tales, presided over by the gods, two rival Theban cousins fight it out for the right to the hand of Hippolyta’s sister.
• In The Miller’s Tale, the funniest and rudest of the stories, a scholar’s and a parish clerk’s differing approaches at wooing a carpenter’s wife, parody the tale of the Knight.