This week we finished up our examination of English medieval literature with a short look at The Canterbury Tales. Not only was the language more modern (as symbolized by the textbook creators assuming you could read it without a translation), but its portrayal of English life was contemporary. Beowulf and Gawain were poems about the pagan and Christian past respectively. The Canterbury Tales was a representation of English life and people in the late 14th Century as it was happening.
With some very small adjustments you could easily write a 21st century adaptation of the pilgrimage Chaucer has his characters go on. Continue reading “”