A retelling of the medieval poem about a group of travelers on a pilgrimage to Canterbury and the tales they tell each other. With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life-from knight to nun, miller to monk-reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth...

Writer, director, actor, and historian, Terry Jones presents his view of Chaucer and his society. He vigorously supports his theory that in later life, Chaucer was a highly controversial figure, which lead to his assassination.