I have just started reading “The Good Wife of Bath” by Karen Brooks. I am familiar with the Wife of Bath from my previous ...

The pilgrims are a mixed bunch ... if anyone was going to be a gin drinker from The Canterbury Tales’ tellers, the Wife of Bath would be it. And thus we have Lilian Bellamy as the good Wife ...

Image caption, A 1485 illustration from The Canterbury Tales shows the many pilgrims seated around a table - it was never revealed which one won their storytelling contest However, the work people ...

The fact that Chaucer wrote in English (now referred to as Middle English), rather than French or Latin like many of his fellow writers, meant that ordinary folk could enjoy the Canterbury Tales ...

The tales are framed as a storytelling contest between pilgrims, who entertain themselves while travelling from London to the tomb of Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. It is regarded a ...

Chaucer’s pilgrims, in “The Canterbury Tales,” went only from London to Canterbury, about 60 miles. That particular journey reads like a holiday, but other pilgrimages were more arduous.