Canterbury Tales Translated: How Chaucer Became a Musical

Author / Editor
Coghill, Nevill.

Title
Canterbury Tales Translated: How Chaucer Became a Musical

Published
Manuscripts 23.2 (1971): 93-102.

Description
Recounts events that led to Coghill's translation of CT and to his collaboration with Martin Starkie and Richard Hill in making the musical version of the text. Includes comments on the importance of rhyme and diction in the process of translating Chaucer, focusing on FrT 3.1327-54.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Recordings and Films
Canterbury Tales--General
Friar and His Tale