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Special offer. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales II

Four unabridged Tales

Philip Madoc, Frances Jeater, John Rowe, Charlie Simpson and John Moffatt

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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.

Release date: 15th Mar 2002
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Series:
- Poetry
- The Great Poets
Catalogue number: NA325612
Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Geoffrey Chaucer: The Wife of Bath's Tale

Work length1:14:20

Prologue to The Wife of Bath's Tale

Track length7:29

And tell me also, why there was creation

Track length4:29

Now sires, I shall proceed to tell my tale

Track length7:32

We love no man that spies or gives us charge

Track length7:32

Such words I had always, and brought them forth

Track length5:05

And so it happened on a day in Lent

Track length6:40

Now I will tell you truly, by St Thomas

Track length6:38

Who would believe, who could indeed suppose

Track length2:43

Behold the words between the Summoner and the Friar

Track length2:06

Here begins the Tale of the Wife of Bath

Track length7:15

This Knight, of whom in chief I tell this tale

Track length5:17

Now, some men, it may be, will take offense

Track length11:34

Geoffrey Chaucer: The Clerk's Tale

Work length1:08:47

The Clerk's Tale

Track length3:43

Here begins the Tale of the Clerk from Oxford

Track length7:59

Not far from that same stately palace bright

Track length5:02

The thoughtful Marquis spoke then to this maid

Track length8:09

It happened, as it would again, indeed This ugly sergeant, in the same rude way

Track length9:09

So in this way went by four years or more

Track length9:56

But meanwhile, after all his wickedness

Track length8:47

This great earl from Bologna now is there

Track length5:27

And when he saw her stand so patiently

Track length7:24

Chaucer's Envoy: Grisilda and her patience both are dead

Track length3:11

Geoffrey Chaucer: The Reeve's Tale

Work length26:52

The Prologue to the Reeve's Tale

Track length4:26

Here the Reeve's Tale begins

Track length4:37

Among the Cambridge students there were two

Track length2:21

The Miller smiled at their simplicity

Track length3:12

Like cattle in the rain, wet through and through

Track length5:51

Soon after this the wife left of her snoring

Track length3:01

Yea, hast thou, lecherous rogue?

Track length3:24

Geoffrey Chaucer: The Nun's Priest's Tale

Work length40:00

The Prologue to the Nun's Priest's Tale

Track length3:55

Here begins the Nun's Priest's Tale. So Once it fell, as day began to break

Track length8:13

'Madam', quoth he, 'grand merci for your lore'

Track length5:16

But unto one befell a marvellous thing

Track length5:58

Now, when the month in which the world began

Track length3:39

Women's advice is oftentimes ill-fated!

Track length7:02

This simple widow and her daughters two

Track length4:21

Epilogue to the Nun's Priest's Tale

Track length1:36

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