TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Everything You Need to Know to Read the Canterbury Tales
Iseult Gillespie shares everything you need to know to read Geoffrey Chaucer's classic collection.
Open Library of the Internet Archive
Open Library: The Canterbury Tales
This ebook version of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: A Close Reading of Chaucer's 'The Merchant's Prologue and Tale'
This article introduces 'The Merchant's Prologue and Tale', exploring the way in which it combines literary genres and traditions, and refuses to give the reader a clear moral or message.
Universal Teacher
Moore's Teacher Resources: The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
An excellent site from the UK. Includes biographical information on Chaucer, historical context, and in-depth information on the Wife of Bath, complete with the relationship between the prologue and tale, character analysis, and essay...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Chaucer: Introduction: Wife of Bath
This lesson introduces the Wife of Bath from Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. It provides information about and links to the "Prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale," "The Wife of Bath's Tale," and the commentary "The Wife of Bath and the...
Harvard University
Harvard: The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions
This paper "The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions" by Mary Carruthers is a literary analysis of the Wife of Bath's Tale from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and her reference to Aesopian fable of the painting of the lion.
Harvard University
Harvard: Chaucer: "Chaucer's Pardoner" by George Lyman Kittredge
This is the article "Chaucer's Pardoner" by George Lyman Kittredge which was originally published in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 72, 1893, pp. 829-33. It uses quoted passages to analyze "The Pardoner's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales by...
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Selected Poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer
Click on numbers 1-10 for Middle English versions of the most famous of Geoffrey Chaucer's prologues and tales from "The Canterbury Tales." Other links will take you to more of Chaucer's works.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Chaucer: Introduction
This is an introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer and his major contribution to Middle English literature in The Canterbury Tales. He is known as ""The Father of English Poetry." The essential questions for the unit focuse on his skill with...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Chaucer: Introduction: Giovanni Boccaccio's the Decameron
This lesson focuses on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, the Italian precursor to The Canterbury Tales, from which Chaucer drew heavily. It provides links to a Chaucer and Boccaccio essay, the tale "Fedrigo's Falcon," and questions...
Luminarium
Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature: Geoffrey Chaucer
This is a biography of Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), author of The Canterbury Tales. The biography provides interactive highlighted words for more information on that topic.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: A Changing Society: Chaucer and the Medieval World
In this lesson, Students read excerpts from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as well as other medieval texts to learn about Medieval English society.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Introduction to Practical Criticism
An in-depth learning module in literary criticism. Students read and listen to a poem by Sir Thomas Wyatt and an excerpt from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and analyze their structure and meaning. Includes multiple-choice quizzes.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Geoffrey Chaucer
This is a biographical tutorial of Geoffrey Chaucer and his most famous work, "The Canterbury Tales." It starts with a slide show of the life of Chaucer and key information about "The Canterbury Tales." It offers an article by Jonathan...
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Female 'Soveraynetee' in Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale'
This article explores the character of the Wife of Bath and the ambiguity surrounding her outspoken views on marriage, power, and religious doctrine.
Other
Geoffery chaucer.org: A Guide to Online Resources
A detailed online guide to numerous websites that deal with the life and the works of Geoffery Chaucer, author of "The Canterbury Tales."
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Gender and Sexuality
Examine representations of gender, sex, and relationships in medieval literature, from the works of women's writers to tales of courtly love to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Harvard University
The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: A Brief Chronology
This timeline of Geoffrey Chaucer's life and times from 1300 to 1400 provides a historical and social context for The Canterbury Tales. Features links to related topics.
Harvard University
The Harvard Chaucer Page: "Piers Plowman"
Full text of William Langland's (1332?-1400?) middle English narrative poem "Piers Plowman." Includes scholarly introduction that notes parallels between the poem and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Harvard University
The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Main Page
This site from The Geoffrey Chaucer Page provides materials for Harvard's Chaucer classes. It provides a wide range of texts and translations of Chaucer's works along with critical articles from various perspectives and general...
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Barltett's Familiar Quotations: Geoffrey Chaucer
A list of famous lines from Chaucer, mainly from "The Canterbury Tales."
Stephen Byrne
History for Kids: Geoffrey Chaucer
History of the famous 14th Century English poet and bureucrat, Geoffrey Chaucer, who wrote the well known, Canterbury Tales. Includes teacher resources.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Experiencing Medieval Literature
This article explains how 'illiterate' individuals encountered literary texts and traditions through textiles, wall paintings, sculptures, and listening to works read aloud in the Middle Ages.
Harvard University
The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Lyric Poetry
A brief note about the English lyric poetry prior to Chaucer and how it relates to Chaucer's "tales." Links provided to related topics.
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