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2. A Canterbury Tale - Wikipedia

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   A Canterbury Tale is a 1944 British film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger starring Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price and Sgt. John Sweet; Esmond Knight provided narration and played two small roles. For the post-war American release, Raymond Massey narrated and Kim Hunter was added to the film.

3. The Canterbury Tales - Wikipedia

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   The question of whether The Canterbury Tales is a finished work has not been answered to date. There are 84 manuscripts and four incunabula (printed before 1500) editions [4] of the work, which is more than for any other vernacular English literary text with the exception of Prick of Conscience.

4. Canterbury Tales (TV series) - Wikipedia

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   Canterbury Tales is a series of six single dramas that originally aired on BBC One in 2003. Each story is an adaptation of one of Geoffrey Chaucer 's 14th-century Canterbury Tales . While the stories have been transferred to a modern 21st-century setting, they are still set along the traditional Pilgrims' route to Canterbury.

5. Canterbury Tales (Harriet and Sophia Lee) - Wikipedia

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   Canterbury Tales is a collection of short stories and novellas, written by Harriet Lee and Sophia Lee and published in five volumes from 1797 to 1805. [1] Sophia's contributions consisted of two tales and the narrative introduction to the first volume; the rest of the work is Harriet's, and formed the basis of Harriet Lee's legacy as an author.

6. Geoffrey Chaucer - Wikipedia

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   Geoffrey Chaucer (/ ˈ tʃ ɔː s ər / CHAW-sər; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. [1] He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". [2]

7. Order of The Canterbury Tales - Wikipedia

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   The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories, mostly in verse, written by Geoffrey Chaucer chiefly from 1387 to 1400. They are held together in a frame story of a pilgrimage on which each member of the group is to tell two tales on the way to Canterbury, and two on the way back.

8. Ellesmere Chaucer - Wikipedia

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   The Ellesmere Chaucer, or Ellesmere Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, is an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, owned by the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California (EL 26 C 9). It is considered one of the most significant copies of the Tales.

9. Prologue and Tale of Beryn - Wikipedia

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   The Northumberland MS 455 (fols. 180a-235a), dated c. 1450–70 is the only manuscript containing the Canterbury Interlude and The Tale of Beryn. The Canterbury Interlude and the Tale of Beryn were published along with the other tales in John Urry’s 1721 edition of The Canterbury Tales. Because it is the only manuscript containing these tales ...