The Canterbury Tales: An Adaptation in Two Parts
- Author / Editor
- Poulton, Mike.
The Canterbury Tales: An Adaptation in Two Parts
- Published
- London: Nick Hern, in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company, 2005.
- Physical Description
- xii, 210 pp.
- Description
- Selections from CT adapted for the stage in modernized iambic couplets (with MLT, PrT, and ClT in rhyme royal stanzas), arranged in two plays, each with two parts, with intervals. Part One opens with a truncated GP, as most of the descriptions of the pilgrims are interspersed later when individual tales begin. Selections include GP, KnT, MilT, RvT, and CkT (play one); MLT, ShT, PrT, and NPT (play two); Thop, PardT, PhyT, WBPT, FrT (play three); and ClT, MerT, SqT, FranT, and ManT (play four). The first play ends with a version of Ret; the second with a prayer from the end of ParsT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations