Oxford Playscripts: The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer (Author), Martin Riley (Consultant Editor), Geoffrey Chaucer (Author), Martin Riley (Consultant Editor), Geoffrey Chaucer (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.41

  An engaging classroom playscript. Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer is dead! In a dramatic attempt to bring him back to life, four medieval alchemists invite a group of Chaucer's best-known pilgrims - the Knight, the Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, the Nun's Priest, and the Miller - to tell their Canterbury Tales. New, innovative activities specifically tailored to support the KS3 Framework for Teaching English and help students to fulfil the Framework objectives. Activities include work on Speaking and Listening, close text analysis, and the structure of playscripts, and act as a springboard for personal writing.

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $3.41

• Used

  Hardcover
  1969

  $3.41

• New

  Paperback
  1996

  $15.71

  This reading of The Canterbury Tales is in contempoarary English prose to appeal to the student and general reader alike. It tells the story of a pilgrimage to Canterbury in which men and women drawn from all classes of society lighten their journey by telling tales.

• New

  Hardcover
  1992

  $18.87

  These tales bring together a band of pilgrims who represented most of the occupations and social groups of the time. The diversity of the narrators in turn made possible a varied collection of tales including chivalric romance, spiritual allegory, courtly lay, beast fable and literary satire.