Chaucer / Jeater / Rowe / Simpson / Moffatt Canterbury Tales Ii CD

Four more delightful tales from one of the most entertaining storytellers of all time. Though writing in the thirteenth century, Chaucer's wit and observation comes down undiminished through the ages, especially in this accessible modern verse translation. The stories vary considerably from the uproarious Wife of Bath's Tale, promoting the power of women to the sober account of patient Griselda in the Clerk's Tale.

1. Prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale 2. And Tell Me Also, Why There Was Creation 3. Now Sires, I Shall Proceed to Tell My Tale 4. We Love No Man That Spies or Gives Us Charge 5. Such Words I Had Always, and Brought Them Forth 6. And So It Happened on a Day in Lent 7. Now I Will Tell You Truly, By St. Thomas 8. Who Would Believe, Who Could Indeed Suppose 9. Behold the Words Between the Summoner and the Friar 10. Here Begins the Tale of the Wife of Bath 11. This Knight, of Whom in Chief I Tell This Tale 12. Now, Some Men, It May Be, Will Take Offense 13. The Clerk's Tale 14. Here Begins the Tale of the Clerk from Oxford 15. Not Far from That Same Stately Palace Bright 16. The Thoughtful Marquis Spoke Then to This Maid 17. It Happened, As It Would Again, Indeed This Ugly Sergeant, in the Same 18. So in This Way Went By Four Years or More 19. But Meanwhile, After All His Wickedness 20. This Great Earl from Bologna Now Is There 21. And When He Saw Her Stand So Patiently 22. Chaucer's Envoy: Grisilda and Her Patience Both Are Dead 23. The Prologue to the Reeve's Tale 24. Here the Reeve's Tale Begins 25. Among the Cambridge Students There Were Two 26. The Miller Smiled at Their Simplicity 27. Like Cattle in the Rain, Wet Through and Through 28. Soon After This the Wife Left of Her Snoring 29. Yea, Hast Thou, Lecherous Rogue 30. The Prologue to the Nun's Priest's Tale 31. Here Begins the Nun's Priest's Tale So Once It Fell, As Day Began 32. Madam, " Quoth He, "Grand Merci for You Lore 33. But Unto One Befell a Marvellous Thing 34. Now, When the Month in Which the World Began 35. Women's Advice Is Oftentimes Ill-Fated! 36. This Simple Widow and Her Daughters Two 37. Epilogue to the Nun's Priest's Tale