Canterbury Tales For The Year 1797 The Landladys Tale The Friends Tale The Wifes Tale

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
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ISBN 13 : 9781976416859
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book The Canterbury Tales: the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canterbury Tales recounts the stories told by pilgrims to one another as they make their way from London to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury. This volume contains the Wife of Bath's Tale - a story which despite its bawdy reputation, tells a profoundly tragic tale of how women were treated in thirteenth century England. Indeed, many consider that Alison speaks with a voice that is still shockingly relevant to the lives of some modern-day women. This edition is particularly suited for High School and College/ University students. Here, the odd-numbered pages contain Chaucer's original text written in Middle English. Alongside, there is plenty of room in the wide outer margins for students to make translation notes of The Wife of Bath's Tale, or perhaps, to define unfamiliar key words. On the facing pages, there are blank lined sheets where students can write their own more detailed notes or translation.At the end of this book, there is a new translation into modern English which differs slightly from those found elsewhere. Here, the key difference is that each line is translated separately, and thereby avoids the problem seen in some translations that words are borrowed from adjacent lines to help maintain Chaucer's rhyming structure. Accordingly, this translation adheres very closely to Chaucer's own words; although, in doing so, it may occasionally become slightly more descriptive than is usual in other translations, and that there are some sections where Chaucer's original couplets no longer rhyme. Nevertheless, this 'word for word' approach has been employed with the express purpose of assisting those readers who new to Chaucer's middle English. In some circumstances, a direct translation into modern English may not always improve a reader's understanding of the storyline. In these cases, a word or phrase will have been added to the original text - but any such additions are always clearly marked in square brackets [ ].Readers will be pleased that the present translation of the Wife of Bath's Tale has substituted any offensive references to female genitalia with much more acceptable descriptions. This volume contains the complete and unabridged text (with line numbers), an accurate translation and a personal study notebook - which means it offers excellent value for money.The translator was educated in England at St Chad's College Durham, Warwick, Exeter and De Montfort universities. Lately, he was a Hardwicke and a Sir Thomas More scholar of Lincoln's Inn, London. His publications include works on English law and literature.