Release date(First episode) 十二月 21, 1998(United Kingdom) Awards Contacts + Add Become a member to see contact information for The Canterbury Tales. Try IMDbPro Premium for free Cast Filmmakers Images Videos Details Episodes Companies
while "The Vision of Piers Plowman" mentions events that occurred in 1360 and 1362 — before which date Chaucer had certainly written "The Assembly of Fowls" and his "Dream." But, though they were his contemporaries, neither Minot nor Langland (if Langland was the author of the Vision) at...
Get to know The Wife of Bath, one of the pilgrims in "The Canterbury Tales". She is a strong-willed woman, married five times, and on the lookout for number six! Never dull, she wants equality with men.
Canterbury Tales: Avec Indira Varma, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Julie Walters, James Nesbitt. Une adaptation de six des Contes de Canterbury de Geoffrey Chaucer dans un cadre moderne.
The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury)[2] is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.[3] It is widely regarded as Chaucer's magnum opus. The tales (mostly written in ...
Geoffrey Chaucer, the outstanding English poet before Shakespeare. His The Canterbury Tales ranks as one of the greatest poetic works in English. He also contributed in the second half of the 14th century to the management of public affairs as courtier,
murder (1170) of ArchbishopThomas Becketin the cathedral andHenry II’spenancethere in 1174, Becket’s shrine attracted many pilgrims. Catering to their needs became the principal activity of the many inns of the town, and a picture of the travelers is given inThe Canterbury TalesofGeoffrey ...
the date of composition. Most scolars ascribe the date of composition between 1369 and 1372. Chaucer probably wrote the poem to commemorate the death of Blanche of Lancaster, John of Gaunt's wife. Notes from antiquary John Stowe indicate that the poem was written at John of Gaunt's request...
I racconti di Canterbury: Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. With Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti. Pasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales.
These famous lines are from the prologue to one of the greatest books in English literature, The Canterbury Tales. Written by Chaucer around 1387, describes a group of people making the pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas à Becket, and the stories they tell to help pass the time. Its...