Oxford Playscripts: The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer is dead! In a dramatic attempt to bring him back to life, four medieval alchemists invite a group of Chaucer's best-known pilgrims - the Knight, the Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, the Nun's Priest, and the Miller - to tell their Canterbury Tales.

Features

• Exciting adaptations of modern and classic novels, and a range of original plays
• Motivating activities focusing on performance, close text analysis, language and structure, together with varied creative tasks
• Insights into the plays by the authors and adaptors
• Notes on props and staging