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The Knight’s Tale and The Miller’s Tale

The most noble tale of the Canterbury Tales, and its parody

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GEOFFREY CHAUCER

The Knight’s Tale and The Miller’s Tale

A Modern-Spelling Edition

Edited by Joe Clunes

UPDATED 10TH JUNE 2026

– In The Knight’s Tale, the noblest of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, rival Theban cousins fight for the right to the hand of the queen of the Amazons’ sister.
– In The Miller’s Tale, the bawdiest of the stories, the differing approaches of a scholar and a parish clerk, in wooing a carpenter’s wife, parody the tale of the Knight.

eBook: Including the original Middle English text, Walter William Skeat’s notes, and a modern-spelling edition, glossed throughout for unfamiliar words, the most philosophical poem of The Canterbury Tales, and the most uproariously funny, are here deciphered verbatim, to reveal with astonishing clarity, two unforgettable medieval classics.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

The Knight’s Tale and The Miller’s Tale

A Dramatised Edition in Modernised Spelling by Joe Clunes

– In The Knight’s Tale, the noblest of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, rival Theban cousins fight for the right to the hand of the queen of the Amazons’ sister.
– In The Miller’s Tale, the bawdiest of the stories, the differing approaches of a scholar and a parish clerk, in wooing a carpenter’s wife, parody the tale of the Knight.

Paperback: With glosses to assist the reader, and lines formatted into speeches to accentuate each character’s voice, the most philosophical poem of The Canterbury Tales, and the most uproariously funny, are here deciphered verbatim, revealing with astonishing clarity, two unforgettable medieval classics.