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Chaucer, G: Canterbury Tales (The) - General Prologue / The Physician's Tale (Middle & Modern English) (Unabridged)
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Chaucer, G: Canterbury Tales (The) - General Prologue / The Physician's Tale (Middle & Modern English) (Unabridged)
Label Catalogue Number:
NA240012
NA240012
ISBN: 9789629546496
Download Size: 191 Mb
Running Time: 02:18:45
Download Size: 191 Mb
Running Time: 02:18:45
Digital UPC: 9789629546496
Release Date: February 2006
Originally recorded in 2006
Release Date: February 2006
Originally recorded in 2006
Author
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Reader
Richard Bebb
Richard Bebb
Reader
Philip Madoc
Philip Madoc
Reader
Michael Maloney
Michael Maloney
Genre:
Spoken Word
Poetry
Spoken Word
Poetry
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Chaucer, G: Canterbury Tales (The) - General Prologue / The Physician's Tale (Middle & Modern English) (Unabridged)
Read by Michael Maloney
The Canterbury Tales are widely read and studied. The Middle English in which they were first written differs sufficiently from modern English, in vocabulary and usage, that most of us require a contemporary translation. On this recording the 'General Prologue' and 'The Physician's Tale' are read in Middle English by Richard Bebb, under the direction of a leading Chaucerian scholar, Professor Derek Brewer. It is an authoritative performance that brilliantly evokes the fourteenth-century world, both for the general reader and the student alike. This is followed by a witty modern verse translation, and provides a fascinating contrast with the original.
