World Masterpieces 271

 

 

P Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales

 

& Please read pp. 1696-1718—this includes the introduction to Chaucer and Chaucer’s General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.

 

 

$ Web-based Assignment on The Renaissance

 

Enrichment Activities

 

English  through the Ages—four versions of an excerpt from the Christian Bible.

 

             After studying this page, let me know what you think, particularly the Old English    version.

 

       ( Chaucer’s The General Prologue, lines 1-18 read in Middle English

 

           Yes, that’s right--click the link above to actually hear the Middle English of Chaucer’s time.

 

        ( I want to hear even more of Chaucer’s The General Prologue read in Middle English.

 

             The above link gives you many excerpts from the Canterbury Tales read in Middle English.