Read and search Chaucer's famous work, "The Canterbury Tales." Text is provided in untranslated Middle English.

This page provides the background for Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, a series of 22 short stories from 29 pilgrims traveling from Canterbury to Kent. It begins with a prologue that sets up the frame story and introduces the characters....

This is a 12-page PDF of "The Nun's Priest's Tale" from Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

Read an overview of "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.

This lesson focuses on two famous tales from Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales: "The Pardoner's Tale" and "The Nun's Priest's Tale." It provides links to the text of each tale and to the prologues of each tale, as well as an essay about...

This site offers the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales with the Middle English and Modern English in a side-by-side format, and provides a glossary for unfamiliar terms.

'The Merchant's Tale' can be viewed as one of the 'marriage' tales in Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales". Students can use this series of activities to explore how Chaucer portrays marriage, men and women, and relationships through the...

Through a focus on digitized images of manuscripts and print editions of Chaucer's work, learners will develop their understanding of how his poetry has been produced and read over the centuries.

This is an interlinear translation of "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It provides the original Middle English line of text followed by a modern English line of text throughout the tale.

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...

An extensive, printable study guide for Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" from the Glencoe Literary Library. Includes biography, background information, and Before, During, and After Reading Activities using graphic organizers, literature...

Iseult Gillespie shares everything you need to know to read Geoffrey Chaucer's classic collection.

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.

This site details a chronology of Chaucer's life and the historical events that occurred during that time. It also has the Canterbury Tales with the Middle English and Modern English in a side-by-side format, and provides a Glossary for...

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.

Have your students ever read any of Geoffrey Chaucer's work? Check out this comprehensive site featuring links to several sites focused on his life and "The Canterbury Tales."

Fictionalized Geoffrey Chaucer introduces, you, the reader to The Canterbury Tales.

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...

This multimedia site is full of useful features, from a video introduction to the purpose of the site, to notes on the text and a reading in Middle English. Information about the background, language and other details are also included.

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...

Digitization of "Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims," an early twentieth-century illustrated version of Chaucer's famous tales.

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...

In this lesson, Students read excerpts from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as well as other medieval texts to learn about Medieval English society.

Learners learn how the stereotypes and characterization of Chaucer's pilgrims reflect his views of religious corruption and social boundaries in the medieval period. They will consider how the themes reflected in the general Prologue...