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Electronic
Canterbury Tales - Kankedort.Net Index Page
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The Canterbury
Tales in Middle English
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The Canterbury
Tales in Translation
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General
Historical & Cultural Backgrounds
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Sources,
Analogues, & Related Texts
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Online Notes &
Commentary
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Online Articles
& Books
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Student Projects
& Essays
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Online
Bibliography
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Syllabi & Course
Descriptions
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Images &
Multimedia
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Audio Files &
Language Helps
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Potpourri
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Additional
Resources
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Scholar's
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What's New? Recent Additions to the ECT
Web Resources by Tale
Electronic
Canterbury Tales - Kankedort.Net Index Page
Fragment I / Group A
The General Prologue
The Knight's Tale
The Miller's Prologue &
Tale
The Reeve's Prologue & Tale
The Cook's Prologue & Tale
Fragment II / Group B1
The Man of Law's
Introduction, Prologue, Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment III /
Group D
The Wife of Bath's
Prologue & Tale
The Friar's Prologue & Tale
The Summoner's
Prologue
& Tale
Fragment IV /
Group E
The
Clerk's Prologue & Tale
The Merchant's Prologue,
Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment V / Group F
The
Squire's Introduction & Tale
The Franklin's
Prologue
& Tale
Fragment VI /
Group C
The Physician's Tale
The Pardoner's Introduction,
Prologue, & Tale
Fragment VII /
Group B2
The Shipman's Tale
The Prioress's Prologue
& Tale
The
Prologue & Tale
of Sir Thopas
The Tale of Melibee
The Monk's Prologue & Tale
The Nun's Priest's Prologue,
Tale, & Epilogue
Fragment VIII /
Group G
The
Second Nun's Prologue & Tale
The Canon's Yeoman's
Prologue & Tale
Fragment IX /
Group H
The Manciple's
Prologue & Tale
Fragment X /
Group I
The Parson's Prologue
& Tale
The Retraction
The Electronic Canterbury Tales:
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An Online Compendium and Companion
to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
WHAT'S NEW?
Chaucer
in / and Popular Culture
Whole industries have been developed around the marketing and
mass production of literary classics; Shakespeare, whose name and image graces everything
from big budget Hollywood movies to, well, almost anything, is probably the most high
profile (and high brow) example.
On this page you'll find a Chaucer transformed in and by
popular culture. This ad hoc WWW list is serendipitous and idiosyncratic, funny and
odd, and ultimately more revealing about our own historical period than it is of Chaucer.
I'll cross-list any tale-specific items on the appropriate page under Potpourri.
To what uses has the name and image of Chaucer been put?
Let's see . . .
You Tube!
The Arts
Obviously, somebody didn't read the Miller's Prologue well enough. See the place of
the Miller's Tale in current arguments about censorship, "morality," and funding
for the arts in Martin Garbus' editorial in The Nation, "The Indecent Standard."
Read
about the most expensive book in the world: Caxton's
first edition of the Canterbury Tales (c. 1476-77) was auctioned at Sotheby's for $7.5
million in July 1998!
The Fictitious "Rebel's Tale"
comes to us courtesy of those cultural jokesters at the ALR Advocate.
Did you know that "Tabernacle Rust"
is an Anagram of the
Canterbury Tales, at Anagram Genius. FYI, "William Shakespeare" =
"I am a weakish speller"!
If you're a teacher, no
doubt you've seen some form of The
World According to Student Bloopers (Richard Ledere), which features
Chaucer as a key writer of the "mid evil" period.
Chaucerian Performances
Geoffrey
Chaucer & Co., an acting troupe, "is pioneering the staging of
ALL 24 Canterbury Tales . . . fully enacted in modern English. Tailor fit original music
underscores each theatrical piece by Bay Area award-winning composer John Geist."
Of the Canterbury Tales, in chronological order:
- William H. Macy, star of Fargo and formerly Dr. Morganstern on
ER, performed in a rendition of The Canterbury Tales in 1975
(dir. Steven Schacter) with the St. Nicholas Theater Company at the Gurnee Renaissance
Faire. The intriguing note reads that after the performance, "W.H. Macy, David
Mamet and Patricia Cox worked the crowds with a mind-reading act." If only a record
of this moment existed!
- The University of Waterloo presented The Canterbury Tales, A Bawdy Musical
Comedy, 8/ 17 - 8/19, 1990 (music by Richard Hill and John Hawkins, lyrics by Nevill
Coghill, dir. by Bill Klos and Mike Bergalier). Now offline.
- The New Vic Theatre of London presents an irreverent audience
participation version of The
Canterbury Tales, 3/3/96 at Cal State Los Angeles (written by Phil Woods with Michael
Bogdanov).
Movies, Television, & Videos
Pasolini's The Canterbury Tales.
According to the Internet Movie DataBase (IMBD), this
film ranks 6.3 stars (out of 10).
- Although some medievalist like the Pasolini's raucus
rendition, Leonard Maltin says, "Travelers recount four Chaucer
stories--which, unfortunately, are enacted for the viewer. Tiresome, offensive,
graphically sadistic, with Pasolini appearing as Chaucer. Italian-English cast; the second
of the director's medieval trilogy. BOMB."
Canterbury No. 2: nuove storie d'amore del
'300 (1973, dir. Joe D'Amato).
- Did part 2 ever make it into English, even with
subtitles?
The Canterbury Tales (1998, dir. John
Myerson) is also listed in the IMDB.
- Does anyone have a report on this?
Chaucer inspired. A
Canterbury Tale (1944, dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger).
- One viewer at IMDB reports,
"Whatever the subject of
their films one always knows that the results will be special when Powell and Pressburger
are involved. Set in war time England the story follows 4 characters (2 soldiers, a woman
and a local magistrate) as they eventually make a modern day pilgrimage to Canterbury.
Each has their own personal problem and worry mostly brought on by the war. Their stories
intertwine with each other as they become acquainted on their journey. The end results are
quite special. The end results were probably dictated by the need for an uplifting movie
during the War but the results are neither maudlin or contrived and hold up very well
after 50 years. One is tempted to single out individual cast members but this is really an
ensemble effort and all, from major to minor roles, are quite simply superb. A real
gem."
Miscellaneous Single- & Multi-Media
The
Can't Bury Tales (no info. available and now offline)
Canterbury Tales II: Trek of the Star
Warriors (from the Stories from Hell page; no info. available).
"Shield of Three Lions [by Pamela Kaufman] has
been compared to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales for its bawdy sense of humor and hilariously
funny escapades." A romance novel, I take it. I do not know who made the
comparison, of if it is even warranted. Now offline.
As far as I can tell, Chaucer
in Rome has little or nothing to do with our poet, except as part of a
catchy play title. Behold the review by Gail M. Burns of the play by John
Guare.
Chaucer-Inspired Products
Ancestral Instruments:
Chaucer Greatpipes (David Marshall) have a Chaucerian heritage:
"Taken from an illustration in the Ellesmere Manuscript, this is the pipe
played from horseback by the Miller in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales c. 1380 (Prologue, lines 565-6):
'A baggepipe wel koude he blowe and sowne, /
And therwithal he broughte us out of towne'."
Includes a .wav file of the impressive drone of these lovely pipes.
Chaucer-Inspired & Organizations
Chaucer
Group Ltd: "Award Winning Project Management and Information System
Services." They snagged the UK domain name first, I imagine.
Chaucer
Syndicates Limited, "a leading managing agency at Lloyd's and the principal operating
subsidiary of Chaucer Holdings PLC. Chaucer manages three syndicates with underwriting capacity of £257 million for the
1999 year of account. The Chaucer syndicates provide direct and
reinsurance capacity in the major Lloyd's markets: motor, marine (inc. aviation) and non-marine."
Chaucer
Care Limited, specializing in residential care for the elderly.
Chaucer
Technology School, Canterbury, Kent and its very tasteful website.
The
website for Chaucer
College, Canterbury, has a number of photos available, as well as
information in Japanese.
Food, Coffee Shops, Eateries, & B&B's
The
Bargetto Winery (Saratoga, CA) offers "Chaucer's"
wines:
- "These elegant dessert-style wines are produced from 100% pure fruit,
without the addition of artificial flavors. The distinct taste of these wines can be enjoyed in the tradition of Medieval
England. In the spirit of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, experience these unique wines as a pilgrimmage
[sic] in sensory delight.
Drink what the professionals believe to be the best:
Chaucer's wines were awarded 61 gold medals and a total of 161 Medals from 1972-1998!"
- Now offline.
Bookshops & Libraries
The
Chaucer Head Bookshop, Stratford-upon-Avon: The Chaucer Head is the
red-brick building in the middle, next to Nash's House/New Place
(Shakespeare's "Deathplace"). When Shakespeare lived next
door-but-one our building was the home of Julius Shaw, a friend and
witness to the great man's will."
Travel and Pilgrimage
Google Academic Resources
Google Scholar
Google Book
Google Custom
Search:
I welcome your
suggestions for suitable websites. Please be patient as
I tune the search terms.
The
Poor Medieval Scholar's
Electronic Bookshelf
and
The
Electronic Canterbury Tales
Bookshop
This subpage of
the Electronic Canterbury Tales offers several
features:
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The Poor Scholar's
Electronic Bookshelf: No cost books (generally
older studies) available via the Google Books project and other
public online projects.
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The ECT Bookshop:
Scroll down to the Electronic
Canterbury Tales Bookshop (with recommended titles) hosted by
Amazon.com.
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Online Search Links
will take you to
major online booksellers and homepages to lesser-known but
excellent specialty bookshops.
I'll cross-list the
recommended Google Books on the appropriate webpage throughout the Electronic
Canterbury Tales under
Online Articles
& Books (on the expanded Electronic
Canterbury Tales - Kankedort.Net Index Page) and also detail them on the webpages devoted to specific Canterbury Tales or associated
pages).
This will be an ongoing
project, so check back periodically for new finds!
How to Document
Print & Electronic Sources:
The Chaucer Pedagogy
Documentation Primer
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The
Poor Medieval Scholar's Electronic Bookshelf
(no cost, older academic books, in .pdf
form from the
Google Library Project)
The
Electronic Canterbury Tales
Bookshop
(recommended books for the study of
Chaucer and Late-Medieval England, hosted by Amazon.com)
The
Kankedort
Gift Shoppe
(with many serious and some silly offerings for the medievalist in your
life)
About This Website
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Chaucer the Pilgrim-Narrator & Author
Chaucer's "Orphan" Pilgrims
- Those without a Tale
The
Frame Tale, Later Continuations,
&
Chaucerian Apocrypha
Manuscripts,
Printed Editions, & Electronic Texts
Electronic
Chaucer Texts:
What's Available Online?
Chaucer
in / and Popular Culture
Troilus
and Criseyde
Documentation Primer
Chaucer Pedagogy Page
Major Medieval Conferences Websites
International
Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan Univ. (Kalamazoo, MI)
International
Medieval Congress, Univ. of Leed (Leeds England)
If you're looking for it,
Powell's probably has it!
And if Powell's doesn't
have it, AbeBooks does!
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