May 7, 2024

Adult Faith Formation Series, Canterbury Tales -- Resources for Further Study

 A final post on the Canterbury Tales.  Various resources can be found online - links are provided below.



Resources for the Canterbury Tales as a whole:


The Harvard University Chaucer page has many resources and the texts of the various tales in both modern and middle English.  [here]


GK Chesterton's book on Chaucer is available online at Project Guttenberg [here] 


Course Hero, with short summaries of each tale as well as themes and plot summaries.  [here]   This series should be referenced for each of the Tales - the summaries are very short, but helpful.

Scott Howard, a high school teacher, has a number of videos for a high school course on the Canterbury Tales.  The full list can be found [here].

Scott Howard has a video on introducing the Canterbury Tales [here] and another on important terms [here].



General Prologue

Scott Howard provides good info about a number of the tales.  He has two videos on the general prologue part 1 [here]  and part 2 [here].


From the John's Hopkins University course on the Canterbury Tales - general prologue [here]


An impressive performance of the general prologue entirely in middle English [here].  



Knight's Tale

Scott Howard has a little analysis of this tale.  [Here]



Miller's Tale

Scott Howard has a video summary [here]

From Johns Hopkins [here]



Wife of Bath's Tale

Scott Howard has two videos [part 1 here]  and [part 2 here]

Johns Hopkins [here]


Pardoner's Tale

Scott Howard has a summary and analysis [here]

From Johns Hopkins University, [here]


The Nun's Priest's Tale

From Johns Hopkins University, covering the Nun's Priest's Tale as well as the Parson's Tale and the Retractions.  [here]