The Mark Steel Lectures-Geoffrey Chaucer 1/3

[mauroromero2010]

Does anyone know where I can get subtitles for this documentary? English or Spanish. Thank you!

[owdl114]

Did I see Ian Dowie in the famous heads montage at the beging?

[reaisan]

Wow, if this is an example of lectures in general, I should have studied in the UK.

[LalaRach]

This is fantastic!

[carsanookdotcom]

Merci beaucoup. Vulgarisation de la histoire litteraire. C'est bien.

Beacuoup miex que la maudite television.

Merci coughsirup

Dr John Carsanook

Bangkok

[AESJimmy]

Geoffrey Chaucer is my 18th GRANDFATHER!!!! Honestly =)

[heliotropezzz333]

@AESJimmy Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, the droghte of March hath perced to the roote, and bathed every veyne in swich licour, of which vertu engendred is the flour, when Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth inspired hath in every holt and heeth the tendre croppes, and the yonge sun, hath in the ram his halve cours yronne, and smale foweles maken melodye that sleepeth al the nyght with open ye, so priketh him natur in hir courages, thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages

[LackadaisicalE]

@AESJimmy ok thats pretty cool as such things go :)

[acerb45666555]

"off the mark"?? oh well' even the best author makes a few turns down the wrong road. we'll have to get used to it!

[Rascal157]

7:10

[darrigaz]

They're as reliable as most of the books my lecturers have written.................

[UTOG90]

I hope no one is watching these videos for information because he is off the mark on a number of points.

[saermegil]

like?

[greatsea]

@UTOG90 -- Which ones clever clogs? Or are you one of those drive by comment leavers who offer criticism with no analysis.

[klward22]

hehehhe funny stuff...

[liberal4ever]

christ these lectures are addictive.

[AndrewSummers]

amazingly true

[thejohnsmith]

Thank you for posting.

[levanyzzuf]

Reading Chaucer in Middle English isn't very difficult to understand actually...

[InfectedDaemon]

Smart ass Dante...

[womblefree]

Another good reason why poor people should limit the number of children they have if at all, Equality.

[KaOssis]

You love doing lecture's on people with Passion don't you Steel, because you love taking the piss out of all the Bright Dianond Pineal Gland kid's you're Freemasons send to Sunday School to read and decipher the Bible, because you havn't got the intelligence to fucking read it for yourself, because you can't tolerate you're own Devil of a Conscience, ain't that a facto, half brain Steel!

[KaOssis]

Bow-Boy Butt-Shaft = $, and you can take it two way's; Those that get boitten by a fruit cake with a NHS Ketamine Syringe, or those that were Smitten by a Fruit Fly! Now go and Wrign Out You're Spleen Steel, you're full of Bully Buffalo shit!

[KaOssis]

Steel, you're a Reverse Psychology nazi Freemason, because if you had an ounce of common sense, you'ed have found out that the German royal Family was faked out of the Finch Family, the fetheared kind with a Parasite that caused the Black Plague, and that's the Nazi's Stealth war that's still going on today, fact, cough cough!

[ycanionlyevafind1sok]

What the hell?!! did anyone else notice Freddie Flintoffs picture in the opening titles?...or was I only one sad enough to...

[whalleyrangeblue]

and iain dowie!!

[centripetal5]

Thanks for this!

[penguinegg01]

If you read Chaucer in modern english, you lose the poetry completly. And it is not difficult to do. It is like reading the xottish vernacular of Irvin Welsh. It takes a couple of pages to get into it, but once into it, it is easy.

[JKB76]

I am studying to be a professor of Eng. Literature and Chaucer is a constant. I hope that I make him making as interesting as Steel does to my future students.

[Hikarinyx6590]

Absolutely brilliant. XD

[trceb]

keep uploading mark steel. You Rock!!!!!!!

[blackwhimsy]

Thanks so much for this.

I discovered Mark by chance as summer filler on my local ABC(Aussie version of Beeb)2 yrs ago and have chased up as many of his lectures as I can since.Informative and funny.Great stuff.

[chumpythemagnificent]

Same.. I just happened to flick onto ABC RN at the right time too :)

[tefisher1984]

Remembering Geoffrey Chaucer 608 years after his death.

[dafyddoe]

You must be very old then?

[elflamingo42]

whoo! More mark steel lectures!