CHAUCER, G.: Canterbury Tales, Vol. 3 (Modern English Verse Translation) (Unabridged)

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400, Author.

Contributor:

Naxos Digital Services US.

Series:

Naxos Spoken Word Library.

Naxos Spoken Word Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spoken Word.

Local Subjects:

Spoken Word.

Genre:

Video recordings.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Naxos Digital Services US Incorporated, 2004.

System Details:

Mode of access: Available online.

Contents:

The Friar's Tale ( 02 min., 21 sec. )

Here begins the Friar's Tale ( 03 min., 47 sec. )

So it befell that on a certain day ( 02 min., 46 sec. )

Now by the truth, my brother dear ( 03 min., 48 sec. )

In various ways and figures we appear ( 02 min., 47 sec. )

So on their way they rode forth speedily ( 02 min., 36 sec. )

The summoner knocketh at the widow's gate ( 02 min., 34 sec. )

And when the fiend heard how she cursed him so ( 03 min., 10 sec. )

The Summoner's Tale ( 03 min., 15 sec. )

Here the Summoner begins his tale ( 03 min., 12 sec. )

Nay cried the friar ( 03 min., 58 sec. )

Dear Sir, with your permission ( 03 min., 43 sec. )

Lo, Moses fasted forty days and nights ( 02 min., 40 sec. )

For they, I think, are like Jovinian ( 03 min., 42 sec. )

And bear this word away now ( 03 min., 20 sec. )

Wrathful Cambyses loved both drink and revel ( 03 min., 02 sec. )

Nay, by St Simon, quickly answered he ( 03 min., 03 sec. )

Ha! Thought the friar ( 03 min., 19 sec. )

The lady of the house sat listening ( 02 min., 52 sec. )

My lord, said Jankin ( 02 min., 56 sec. )

The Lawyer's Tale ( 05 min., 36 sec. )

The Prologue of the Lawyer's Tale ( 02 min., 06 sec. )

Here the Lawyer begins his tale ( 03 min., 44 sec. )

This sultan for his privy council sent ( 02 min., 56 sec. )

The day is come at last for their departing ( 03 min., 48 sec. )

The mother of the sultan ( 03 min., 57 sec. )

Part 2 ( 03 min., 43 sec. )

A certain treasure that was with her sent ( 03 min., 06 sec. )

Into our English ocean thus she came ( 04 min., 11 sec. )

Satan, our ever-waiting arch-betrayer ( 03 min., 19 sec. )

Down on her knees she dropped ( 03 min., 08 sec. )

But who was wroth this wedding rite to see ( 03 min., 33 sec. )

Sad was the king, having this letter read ( 03 min., 45 sec. )

Now wept the young and old in all that place ( 03 min., 29 sec. )

Part 3 ( 03 min., 30 sec. )

How could this feeble woman find the might ( 02 min., 55 sec. )

Aella, who caused his mother to be slain ( 03 min., 15 sec. )

Fair when they met did Aella give her greeting ( 03 min., 23 sec. )

Who can describe the piteous joy they know ( 03 min., 25 sec. )

The Seaman's Tale ( 02 min., 12 sec. )

Here being the Seaman's Tale ( 04 min., 23 sec. )

Sir John had risen some little time ago ( 01 min., 52 sec. )

The monk began to stare upon this wife ( 03 min., 46 sec. )

This monk made answer as I tell you here ( 02 min., 59 sec. )

And afterwards, Sir John with gravity ( 02 min., 46 sec. )

On the first Sunday after he was gone ( 03 min., 22 sec. )

His wife was ready at the gate to greet him ( 03 min., 43 sec. )

The Prioress's Tale ( 01 min., 41 sec. )

The Prologue of the Prioress's Tale ( 02 min., 07 sec. )

Here begins the Prioress's Tale ( 03 min., 10 sec. )

This child passed through the Jewish colony ( 03 min., 44 sec. )

The Christians on the street, that came and went ( 02 min., 52 sec. )

Therefore I sing, and sing I must indeed ( 02 min., 07 sec. )

The Manciple's Tale ( 03 min., 09 sec. )

Then to the Manciple spoke up our Host ( 02 min., 44 sec. )

Here begins the Manciple's Tale ( 03 min. )

But to the end for which I first began ( 05 min., 06 sec. )

After this wife sent for her paramour ( 03 min., 49 sec. )

And to the crow he cried again ( 02 min., 39 sec. )

Thy first of actions, son, and thy chief care ( 02 min., 36 sec. )

The Physician's Tale ( 02 min., 57 sec. )

If she was unexcelled in beauty thus ( 03 min., 34 sec. )

This maid of whom I tell did not require ( 03 min., 32 sec. )

On this, and he not herem ( 03 min., 45 sec. )

O mercy, O dear father ( 03 min., 31 sec. )

The words of the Host to the Physician and the Pardoner ( 02 minutes, 12 sec. )

Participant:

Pigott-Smith, Tim, Reader -- Tompkinson, Stephen, Reader -- Kay, Charles, Reader -- West, Timothy, Reader -- Shanks, Rosalind, Artist -- Barrett, Sean, Reader -- Maloney, Michael, Reader -- Chaucer, Geoffrey, Author

Notes:

Naxos Digital Services electronic collection.

Streaming audio.

Publisher Number:

9789626343043

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.