The Canterbury tales - a selection

" The Canterbury tales", compiled in the late fourteenth century, is an incisive portrait, infused with Chaucer's wry wit and vibrant, poetical language. He evokes a spectrum of colourful characters, from tge bewdy Wife of Bath to the gallant Knight, the fastidious Prioress and the burky, drunken Miller. As they wend their way from Southwark to Canterbury, tales are told to pass the time, and the stories are as diverse as the narrators, encompassing themes such as adultery, revenge, courtlu love, lechery, avarice and penitence.