The Rap "Canterbury Tales"
- Author / Editor
- Brinkman, Baba.
The Rap "Canterbury Tales"
- Published
- Vancouver : Talonbooks, 2006.
- Physical Description
- 362 pp.
- Description
- Facing-page adaptations of KnT (abridged), MilT, PardT, and WBT, with Middle English and lyrics designed for rap performance. The Middle English text is glossed, and each Tale is accompanied by a brief introduction to the plot. Brinkman's introduction (pp. 9-52) compares features of Chaucer's poetry with features of rap and hip-hop culture ("competitive, descriptive, rhyming narrative verse"); assesses the roles of rhyme and rhythm in cultural history; and describes the development of his rap versions of CT. Illustrations by Erik Brinkman.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Miller and His Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.