Home »
Performers »
Terry Jones » The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
|
|
Our recording of The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales is a translation from
the Middle English into modern language. It is translated by the
leading Chaucerian enthusiast Terry Jones, yes the Monty Python one,
who adds to his truly scholarly rendition of the text a smattering of
vital and fascinating notes, recorded as he read.
A meeting between pilgrims at the Tabard Inn on the road to Canterbury
provides the linking narrative for The Canterbury Tales. A group of
pilgrims swap their tales, with a thoroughly human competitiveness and
retaliatory jousting. The choice of pilgrims for his characters allowed
Chaucer to put together types that wouldn’t usually associate let alone
talk. This allowed him to put a tale of courtly love along side a
political treatise, and in this case a filthy and very funny tale of
adultery, the feared coming of the second flood and burnt bums.
Download "The Prologue" and get "The Miller's Tale" Read by Terry Jones Absolutely FREE!
Running Time / File Size: 1hr 39mins total - File size 46MB
|
People who downloaded this recently, also purchased:
| | |
