Research Guides: ENGL 201: Chaucer: Canterbury Tales (HC): Creative Interpretations

Creative interpretations of Chaucer

Chaucer illustrated: five hundred years of the Canterbury tales in pictures
This work presents ten scholarly essays, specifically commissioned for this volume, that collectively trace pictorial renditions of the Canterbury Tales from the Ellesmere Manuscript (c. 1410) to the 20th-century illustrations of Rockwell Kent and Eric Gill. The contributors address the way the illustrations illuminate the history of book production, marketing, and readership; the writers also consider how artists have interpreted Chaucer's text.
Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog
See Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: Medieval Studies and New Media for further information.
The Rap Canterbury Tales
Baba Brinkman is the creative force behind a book and CD interpretation of the Canterbury Tales in rap/hip-hop style.
Wendy Steiner's "The Loathly Lady" opera
The works of Geoffrey Chaucer: a facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer
William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones worked on this edition of Chaucer from 1892-1896. There are 87 illustrations as well as many decorative borders done in a Pre Raphaelite style.

The Canterbury Tales by Seymour Chwast
ISBN: 9781608194872
Publication Date: 2011-08-30
Accompany a band of merry medieval pilgrims as they make their way-on motorcycles, of course-to Canterbury. Meeting at the Tabard Inn, the travelers, including a battle-worn knight, a sweetly pretentious prioress, the bawdy Wife of Bath, and an emaciated scholar-clerk, come up with a plan to pass time on the journey to Thomas à Becket's shrine by telling stories. The twenty-four tales, which range from high romance set in ancient Greece to low comedy in contemporary England, are adapted into graphic novel form by Seymour Chwast-a pitch-perfect transposition of Chaucer's pointed satire.