THE CANTERBURY TALES

This adaptation of Chaucer&rsquo,s Canterbury Tales explores the bawdy humor of The Miller&rsquo,s Tale, The Merchant&rsquo,s Tale, The Nun&rsquo,s Priest&rsquo,s Tale, and The Wife of Bath&rsquo,s Prologue. Prochaska infuses The Franklin&rsquo,s Tale with a hefty dose of comedy as the characters navigate their way through a rocky coastline and an awkward love triangle.Faithful to the original, this text is accessible to a young twenty-first century audience for whom it may be an introduction to Chaucer&rsquo,s wise and gentle satire on love, marriage, and sex.  , , ,  ,&ldquo,CANTERBURY TALES is not centered on sex but [it] does not shy from the pilgrims&rsquo, raunchiness, and&hellip,it was taken directly from Chaucer&rsquo,s original stories of an odd-lot of women and men headed for England&rsquo,s famous cathedral&hellip,  ,  , Adapter Reiner Prochaska has pulled off a marvelous script, translated into modern English, he begins with Geoffrey Chaucer&rsquo,s strange language that was spoken in his time, long before the age of Shakespeare, when England still paid homage to Rome and the pope.  ,  ,No religious overtones, let me reassure readers, creep into the tales of fellow travelers who are much more concerned with life&rsquo,s harrows and `country matters&rsquo, than God&rsquo,s or the Vatican&rsquo,s doings. In that era, they could not count on sticking around a long time and that made every day precious. And that&rsquo,s what Chaucer captured and playwright Prochaska affirms.&rdquo, Roy Meachum, The Tentacle_,