Knihy od: Chaucer, G.

The year is 1386 and pilgrims are going to Canterbury to visit the tomb of Saint Thomas Becket, and they tell stories on the way. Who should be stronger in a marriage; the husband or the wife? What happens when two men fall in love with the same woman? In...

The activities in Dominoes keep students engaged in the stories and help to reinforce their understanding of the key language. They can be completed at home or in class. The project activities in Dominoes build on the themes from the story and encourage students to draw on their own experiences....

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.’ Written at the end of the fourteenth century, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales are a collection of stories told in Middle-English. Thirty pilgrims leave Southwark to...

'Whoever best acquits himself, and tells The most amusing and instructive tale, Shall have a dinner, paid for by us all...' In Chaucer's most ambitious poem, The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387), a group of pilgrims assembles in an inn just outside London and agree to entertain each other on the...

`Now listen with good will, as I go straight to my subject matter, in which you may hear the double sorrows of Troilus in his love for Criseyde, and how she forsook him before she died' Like Romeo and Juliet, or Tristan and Iseult, the names of Troilus and Criseyde...

A group of pilgrims travelling to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury decide that each traveller should tell a story. Read about tales by the Knight, the Nun’s Priest, the Pardoner, the Wife of Bath and the Franklin.