Geoffrey Chaucer

This translation of the first two stories from The Canterbury Tales 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, two rival Theban cousins fight for the right to the hand of Hippolyta’s sister.
• In The Miller’s Tale, the rudest and funniest of the stories, a scholar and a parish clerk’s differing approaches at wooing a carpenter’s wife, parody the tale of the Knight.