Geoffrey Chaucer, Premiere of the Canterbury Tales

Recreation of the first performance of Geoffrey Chaucer's General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales, imagined as having taken place on 6 June 1389 in Sheen Palace, London. Colin Gibbings is Geoffrey Chaucer. With original Middle English text, edited by Barbara Bordalejo, and translation by Terry Jones, introduced by a conversation between Terry and Barbara.
Recorded at the Greystone Theater, the University of Saskatchewan, 9 April 2015. Colin Gibbings is a MA student at the University of Saskatchewan. Devised and presented by the Canterbury Tales Project, Saskatchewan and KU Leuven, in co-operation with Richard North, University College London.

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