Directory of Canterbury Tales Resources

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The Canterbury Tales are Chaucer's greatest literary achievement. These tales are among the greatest poems in English literature.

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• Canterbury Tales

  http://www.librarius.com/cantales.htm
  Side-by-side translations of the Canterbury Tales and a hypertext version of each tale with each difficult word hot-linked to a corresponding glossary entry. From the Librarius site.

• Canterbury Tales

  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bibperm?q1=ct
  Original text in the F.N. Robinson edition.

• Canterbury Tales

  http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/webcore/murphy/canterbury/
  Selected tales with modernized spelling by Michael Murphy. Includes introduction to each tale and explanatory notes.

• Canterbury Tales

  http://oaks.nvg.org/canter-verse.html
  Modern English translation of all the tales.

• Canterbury Tales and Other Poems

  http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/Geoffrey_Chaucer/
  D. Laing Purves's edition of the Canterbury Tales and other poems. Includes a life of Chaucer.

• Chaucer's Tales and Other Works

  http://chaucertales.blogspot.com/
  The Canterbury Tales in modernized spelling, with glosses of difficult words and explanatory notes. Also includes a few of the short poems.

• General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/CT-prolog-para.asp
  Text of the General Prologue (lines 1-858) with facing Modern English translation.

• General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE0MtENfOMU
  YouTube video includes sound recording of lines 1-18 and simplified text that shows how to pronounce the words.

 

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