CHAUCER, G.: Canterbury Tales, Vol. 2 (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, 2002.

System Details:

Mode of access: Available online.

Contents:

Prologue to The Wife of Bath's Tale ( 07 min., 29 sec. )

And tell me also, why there was creation ( 04 min., 28 sec. )

Now sires, I shall proceed to tell my tale ( 07 min., 32 sec. )

We love no man that spies or gives us charge ( 07 min., 32 sec. )

Such words I had always, and brought them forth ( 05 min., 05 sec. )

And so it happened on a day in Lent ( 06 min., 40 sec. )

Now I will tell you truly, by St Thomas ( 06 min., 38 sec. )

Who would believe, who could indeed suppose ( 02 min., 42 sec. )

Behold the words between the Summoner and the Friar ( 02 min., 05 sec. )

Here begins the Tale of the Wife of Bath ( 07 min., 15 sec. )

This Knight, of whom in chief I tell this tale ( 05 min., 17 sec. )

Now, some men, it may be, will take offense ( 11 min., 34 sec. )

The Clerk's Tale ( 03 min., 43 sec. )

Here begins the Tale of the Clerk from Oxford ( 07 min., 58 sec. )

Not far from that same stately palace bright ( 05 min., 02 sec. )

The thoughtful Marquis spoke then to this maid ( 08 min., 09 sec. )

It happened, as it would again, indeed This ugly sergeant, in the same rude way ( 09 min., 09 sec. )

So in this way went by four years or more ( 09 min., 56 sec. )

But meanwhile, after all his wickedness ( 08 min., 47 sec. )

This great earl from Bologna now is there ( 05 min., 27 sec. )

And when he saw her stand so patiently ( 07 min., 24 sec. )

Chaucer's Envoy: Grisilda and her patience both are dead ( 03 min., 11 sec. )

The Prologue to the Reeve's Tale ( 04 min., 25 sec. )

Here the Reeve's Tale begins ( 04 min., 37 sec. )

Among the Cambridge students there were two ( 02 min., 20 sec. )

The Miller smiled at their simplicity ( 03 min., 12 sec. )

Like cattle in the rain, wet through and through ( 05 min., 50 sec. )

Soon after this the wife left of her snoring ( 03 min. )

Yea, hast thou, lecherous rogue? ( 03 min., 23 sec. )

The Prologue to the Nun's Priest's Tale ( 03 min., 55 sec. )

Here begins the Nun's Priest's Tale. So Once it fell, as day began to break ( 08 min., 13 sec. )

'Madam', quoth he, 'grand merci for your lore' ( 05 min., 16 sec. )

But unto one befell a marvellous thing ( 05 min., 58 sec. )

Now, when the month in which the world began ( 03 min., 39 sec. )

Women's advice is oftentimes ill-fated! ( 07 min., 02 sec. )

This simple widow and her daughters two ( 04 min., 21 sec. )

Epilogue to the Nun's Priest's Tale ( 01 minutes, 35 sec. )

Participant:

Moffatt, John, Reader -- Madoc, Philip, Reader -- Jeater, Frances, Reader -- Simpson, Charles, Reader -- Rowe, John, Reader -- Chaucer, Geoffrey, Author

Notes:

Naxos Digital Services electronic collection.

Streaming audio.

Publisher Number:

9789626342565

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.