The two tales from The Canterbury Tales contained within this book set out the spoken parts, and present Geoffrey Chaucer’s original in more familiar English.

• In the Knight’s tale, presided over by the gods, two Theban cousins fight it out for the right to the hand of Hippolyta’s sister. 

• In the Miller’s tale, a scholar’s and a parish clerk’s differing approaches at wooing a carpenter’s wife, parody the tale of the Knight.