Dr. Enelow Raps the Canterbury Tales

[perrymcdermott]

Dad?

[xpeacexlovexmusicx1]

i wish he was my english teacher

[AK47EVIN]

If I had him for a teacher I probaby would have passed my recital or this!

[OdinIsMyGuide]

lmao that was pretty damn funny... yea he's doing the first handful of lines from the General Prologue for sure, if u had to follow it with a text you'ld be able to tell man

[kingdomEXE]

im pretty sure he it got down, i just cant hear the lyrics due to some background noises

[GangGreenFiend]

i have no idea what he was saying

[34oneshot]

COOL!!!!!! Would have loved to be in his class. HE is all into it. That makes it so funny!! LOL

[ashburnhouse]

What a sweet guy.

[naamra]

I am trying to fit this to "Stairway to heaven" and play guitar and recite it on the 25th for my AP Language class. Hahah.

[luisferr2001]

would´ve luved to have him as my english teacher. mine just made me memorize it and try to read it in middle english.

[marielxox3395]

Is he making fun of it or is this really Chaucer? haha

[Thrawn6211]

@marielxox3395 Yeah, it was written in the 1400s, during that time Middle English was spoken which was quite different from modern English.

[Berkeith3667]

I have him this year~ oh this is going to be fun

[luisferr2001]

@Berkeith3667 lucky you!

[Sunoco]

What a badass teacher.

[TiniNormi]

I'm dying

[shaelansays13]

that was awesome! i had to learn this in senior english, and almost ten yeras later i marvel at how well i still am able to pronounce it. i do think our assignment would have been much more fun if my english teacher could have/would have rapped like this man. and the fact that even through his rap he pronounced it very close to perfect is kind of just awesome : )

[WillOrng]

@KnwThyslf It's amazing how much prejudice can be seen when someone extrapolates from a short video.

All one can say about it is that he's made something that could be extremely boring, rather accessible in a modern format.

One can't infer very much about whether or not he goes into this deeper or in more detail.

Surely it makes sense to start by igniting interest and enthusiasm to power and energise later study?

[Ken25abc]

@Knwthyslf I've read your comments and your the only one here who seems like a racist from what you've been posting. And if your going to be using the qoute "know thy self" as a user name your should try putting it into practice

[EyraManet]

Enelow is Coolio!



[Shezzie5]

lol funny :P What an awesome english teacher!

[Mistreena]

This is hilarious! My Prof for Middle English was pretty cool, but this guy is just awesome! :)

[JacksG13]

now that was funny and awesome! u have the coolest teacher ever!!

[FrankMundoPoet]

What a great and fun teacher. He should definitely check out The Brubury Tales, a modern version of The Canterbury Tales in Los Angeles, if he wants to get younger people interested in Chaucer. Thanks for sharing this video.

[stadotthenut]

my teacher is so sedate...but she made our entire class sing Song to Celia. So i have to memorize the prologue and 54 Latin/Greek pre/suffixes by friday. My friend (in a different AP class) is watching tinkerbell.

lucky

[smigio111188]

man my teacher is not half this cool. In Fact She is a terrible sexist teacher, an i have to recite this for her in an hour, and im a guy.....i wrote a wonderful explication from the knights tale, revised it over and over and she gave me a 70 % because a part of it was talking down about the wife of bath....oh my i want to throw a book at her!

[planetcave]

Great teacher or entertainer? What did the students learn from the performance. Yes, it was entertaining and possible it may have sparked an interest in the Canterbury Tales i.e. they may want to read it now, whereas before they may not have wanted to. But basically, they learned nothing about the literature itself nor did he shed any light on how to produce the sounds of middle English. If anything, it possibly confused the listeners due to his incorrect stress and syncopation.

[LiliiPilii]

@planetcave dude! maybe it's just to introduce his lessons. next lesson he will just teach on the old way. so relax

[Nizlopi2]

@planetcave Sadface.

[planetcave]

@Nizlopi2 Just keep dumbing it down and reducing everything to a sound bite, then at least the powers that be will be able to herd and control you with some bread crumbs and kick in the ass.

[jigoku66]

@planetcave

Would you call 55 seconds of singing "reducing everything to a soundbite?"

[eljoeyesaes]

wow awesome teacher!!!!!!

[jasezer]

My english teacher was right, this guy is way cooler than her.

[xxxXGuNzXxxx]

LOL

[normthegenie]

wait what did he say?

[shoutfromtheroof]

ahhhh I wish miss Donna would do this haha

[sprkapple]

My English teacher would love this!

[gopurpleppleaters]

I HAVE HIM THIS YEAR!!!

[verrospol]

i would love to have him as a professor =) and doesn't he remind you of Merlin from the sorcerer's stone?

[vexire]

I wonder who started the tradition of memorizing the first 18 lines of the General Prologue as a right of passage for studying Middle English...

[thesacrament123]

My teacher did the same thing. I think she was funnier though! x3

[CadensNanna09]

This teacher was brave to do this in front of his class. Only if more teachers would make literature this fun or funny.

[monkeyman1397]

@CadensNanna09

My teacher is a coward. She'll make us do it, but we can't get her to say more than a few words. We have to rap it. We need more teachers like that guy.

[Chainsawctopus]

This school, I should have went to it.

[datalal624]

OMG, I laughed so hard! That professor is both funny and brave!

[Cathedralfan013]

nice.

[Cathedralfan013]

Nice.

[MakeupAficionado]

Haha!! That's wassup!! :)

[OMGWTFBBQCHEESEFRIES]

Omg that's so awesome!

[MrInocence]

lawl. we gotta give it to chill teachers

[Grrrstin]

amazing.

[Safferoonicle]

what a teacher

[shamammal]

Way to make lernin fun.

[N495illithian]

Hah i love it

[RoyalKnightVII]

yeah boy!

[VballBaby158]

Ha this is so cool!

[anime119]

lol, that is funny

[Lathlynde]

Dude's amazing.

[fieryphoenixchick]

i miss dr. enelow...

[FeDeRiKa223]

Dr.Enelow sei un genio!!

[freaknkrazy]

HAHAHA!

[Leah24xo]

lol =D thats awesome!!

[IchixNi]

I wish I had an awesome English teacher like that...

[crmsnDRAGONwngs]

that's awesome! lol

[astromelody]

Get this guy to lecture in Oxford. PLEASE. I will love you forever.

[LittleBlueHeron]

XDDD I wish I had a fun teacher like that XDDD

[KingsIndianCR]

Me too :P . I have quite a lot of fun ones, but nobody like that!

[LovingmySavior]

wow, what a cool fun teacher! I am memorizing this right now, it is sooo hard, it would make me respect my teacher a lot if she memorized it too.

[Danemasterpiece]

Me too! :P

[thescribe13]

That dude looks like a really intelligent and entertaining guy.

I bet his class is CRAZY....and fun.

lol. : )

[wasabiochi]

fuck, this guy is my english teacher. i have so much more respect now

[CrustyPie731]

this is great! my teacher showed it in class since we are memorizing it right now and she said he reminded her of every english professor she had haha

[kseko]

Wish I had a teacher like this! Learning needs to be more fun. I think all teachers should have to take drama or music lessons. I know it's not conventional, but I think it would really make kids want to learn more and would inspire teachers to be more creative with their lessons.

[ijwi]

Correction, I think: A medieval person twould be appalled to hear thee address a superior as "thee", since twas considered colloquial, much like "ain't". In fact, "ain't" is a Middle English expression just like "twas" and "twere".

I think "you" was more formal, which is why the British middle class adopted it to sound less "provincial". Thees & thous were "plain speech" and the language of religious and peasant uprisings.

But just so you know, thees & thous are considered standard English.

[ijwi]

Actually, thees and thous are modern English.

Unfortunately, the British middle class decided around 1700 during their version of the "Cultural Revolution" to purge thees and thous, since twas considered "submissive peasant-speak". Folken falsely assume "thou hast" to be formal usage, wherefore bein' in the Bible. Twas actually common speech of lower class, supplanted by urban dialect of "you". A medieval person would be appalled to hear thee address a superior as "you". like "whassup, King?"

[Hexachloraphine]

this professor could possibly be the originator of all of these middle english raps on the web, if this was performed by this man to a class anywhere in the region of 5 or 8 years ago,,,,well it could be.

goodness knows what linguists of 2709 will make of this footage if they ever see it.

What an excellent teacher, wish I had had some like that back in the eighties.

[dutchpuppy2]

GREAT fun! This is what teaching should be all about!

[SunshineStage]

Amen to that, child! School should be fun! I don't get why they pick teachers who make every subject all boring. If teachers made literature or math or all those others subjects fun, then kids like me wouldn't mind going to school!

[FireBreathSpeaks]

lol love it! wish my english teacher brought such subjects forwards to the 21st century...past makes present, after all

[MadddSkeelz]

got a good flow... get this dude in a battle

[jamzskee]

Hahahahahahahahhaha.

[girlzed]

Wow he really emphasises the use of rhythm and perhaps alliteration in the tale. and he knows it very very well. brilliant

[Ealasaid17]

If a Teacher has to teach Middle English like this, than there is something wrong with todays society.

[pinkviolinbby]

hahahah he looks like a leap frog lol...funny !

[dadful]

yay head royce

[HoneyBaer]

What a rip-off! I did this for my English A.P. class back in 1986! :o) Oh well, I guess you can't copyright an interpretative idea...

Good job teacher!

[tbear29485]

my teacher did this!! she did a country version and everything... but this is so much better!!! i love it

[coraclebirdboat]

I CAN'T STOP WATCHING THIS.

I can't get it out of my head! No matter what I'm doing, it'll pop into my thoughts, and it'll get stuck in my head and not stop to the point where it hurts! I almost wish I never saw this : ( Why is it so addicting.

[wk1kko]

ke minkione!

[pantenegirl]

i wish i had this guy.......

[wigglesza]

That English Teacher Is AMAZING!!!

[nomoonorstars]

no. it's middle english. canterbury tales is in middle english.

[syanarasucka]

haha awesome!

[miseryxbusinessx16]

actually. middle english was not anglo-saxon time. that was old english.

[Shem47m]

It makes a lot more sense if you are looking at the General Prologue (in Middle English) while watching it. Before I did that I could only understand the second line The droughte of March hath preced the roote.

[not2divaish]

haha i wish i had him when i was learning chaucer

[onemal1]

wdf wat language is that

[Splurgin1]

OLD ENG

[Iokiagenji]

Middle English, rather.

[moses1489]

omg lol

[werealmost1]

this might be a better way for me to learn it!!!!

[cali2ga]

ok im freakin out and im the only who didnt understand him or was that the point..im not goin crazy right lol

[sendescope]

its in middle English so u'd hav 2 understand that 2 understand this. and no ur not the only 1

[cali2ga]

wow ok that makes me feel a little better...now i just feel a little slow...oh well i am like so in love with this story right now anyway

[Hydebehindthemask]

What High School does he teach at? This is awesome!

[skinsvideos21]

awesome teacher :P

long life Anglo-Saxon rap! lol

[defyinggravity319]

the canterbury tales is actually middle english and was written after anglo- saxon times.

sorry if i sounded obnoxious by that comment! :P

[skinsvideos21]

No man dont worry. I knew that beforehand. Isnt the evolution of English amazing?

[Sauther77]

This guy seems like a cool teacher. I wish I had him. Didn't even know he taught at Classical.

[redcoatsrule]

Mirie it is while sumer y-last

With fugheles son

Oc nu neheth windes blast

And weder strong.

Ei, ei! What this nicht is long

And ich with wel michel wrong

Soregh and murne and fast.

[tomboyluvsyanni9876]

yay!  this is awesome. i have to learn this for my early brit. lit. class and this might help!!!

[ritrgold]

omfg some 1 should sign him i would buy his record lol

[stemcellfilms]

I love old white men with their jazzkat skat beats...

[KamranO]

OMG I WANNA RAP IT!!!

[HugSomeoneToday]

Sweet, man. :D

[choconut86]

damn man! he shud be our teacher, currently my teacher is wack...old...and big butted

[jlhughes122]

He's drunk

[brekin]

awesome

[sparmonic]

straight gangsta!

this dude rocks my world.

[v8localhero]

kickass!!! :D

[gpictor1]

i want this teacher

[olivialeann]

coolest teacher ever

[Ainafaroth]

I'm in a Chaucer/Middle English class right now. This video TOTALLY made my day, especially since one of our key assignments for the class was to memorize the first 18 lines of the general prologue. :)

[Metallicazack]

:D WICKED.

[Coyu3]

Enelow '08

[Sharkju2]

Middle english, in the case, sounds alot like old english.

[Eclectica7]

I think you will probably find that what you think of as 'Old English' is actually 'Middle English'. "Thee"s and "thou"s are middle english. Old english is very, very different, and looks like this:

"Nu scylun hergan hefaenricaes uard

metudæs maecti end his modgidanc"

(from 'Caedmon's Hymn')

[spacybub]

ohhh......thanks. You make me feel more inteligent....but do you understand him???

[spacybub]

I don't understand anything...maybe becaus i'm french....

[theredneck3]

nah, its just in middle english. Chaucer was a crazy guy.

[FlyingRice07]

I Second That.

[Rosiercentral]

I third it!

[karlsefni01]

Too cool!

[NickinFilm]

Dr. Enenlow fucking rules.

[PELICANFLY]

lol, that was sooo funny, and really good. I wish my teachers was as fun as this.

[llevaz]

man, this guy raps like he kicks field goals...

[dak1918]

Dr. Enelow holds it down

[Xochuitzotl]

If only real rap contained lyrics as intellectually stimulating as the Canterbury Tales...

[piscadil]

What the fuck.

[sexybookworm10]

this is the best thing i have ever seen. awesome! :)

[Rosiercentral]

Gotta show my class this, they'll laugh!

We're doing Canterbury Tales right now!

[NickinFilm]

You would shout out "O Captain my Captain" to this Doctor I bet

[Rosiercentral]

probably.

[glamx3delusion]

man i wish my teacher would do this

she just gave us the lines and told us when it was due

it makes it so much easier/fun when teachers are cool like this lol

[hibs0102]

woow! this teacher is awsome!

that was awsome!

[cdg921]

LOfreakinL!! omgoodness...that was AWESOME!!!

[Raplaplox]

I wish my teachers rocked this much XD

[Micheliu71]

Bravo, professor! (Why didn't I think before of doing something like this for class?)

[missladymaam]

that's awesome!

[papashanks]

what a talent! he made boring old English literature so entertaining. hats off to the this great teacher

[hodori1984]

hehehe sounds like many a fun time was had with this awesome teacher =D

[PurpleHands96]

He used to stand on the table to do it :)

[AlyshaOllivander]

Great teacher, wish I had someone as great...

Just to correct you: This is not Old English but Middle English, for all those who are interested.

[mutecebumoo]

haha, nice

[Martialspirit]

Cool version. I memorized that in High School and sounds terrific.

[jems19]

Haha, what a cool teacher

[funnyz]

That's really awesome.