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 Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 3:29 pm
No really, I'm serious. I know the cleaner bits of this book are often presented as assigned reading in high school, but I've actually read the whole thing, and it's quite entertaining. It's essentially a group of travellers on a pilgrimage entertaining each other with tall tales. There's a fair amount of fantasy and magic mixed in with the smut. I read it in 6th grade (under my desk), though I appreciate not everyone's parents would appreciate that sort of thing. If reading Shakespeare doesn't give you a headache, by all means give it a try! It's roughly the same smut level as Shakespeare, too, for reference. I'm quite sure that The Tales of Beedle the Bard was based at least in part on The Canterbury Tales.
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Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 5:25 pm
I read Canterbury Tales in secondary school two years ago. The Pardoner's Tale was my favourite because I liked the fact that Death was a character.
This year in my World Literature class, I read The Decameron by Boccaccio, which is a collection of short stories from Italy that was written a few years before Canterbury Tales, and I now know that if copyright laws had existed back then, Chaucer would have been in trouble for stealing the plot for his Reeve's Tale directly from the 6th story told on the 9th day in The Decameron.
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Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 2:43 pm
Minerva, didn't you have a school assignment related to this a couple of years ago?
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 1:01 pm
The Decameron, you say? Well well...
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 9:09 pm
I'm doing a report on the author, Geoffrey Chaucer.
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 10:05 pm
Yep, Nanny, it's true. 3nodding I was surprised at first, but considering that Shakespeare stole some of his plot ideas also, I decided that it wasn't all that shocking.
Yes, Elf, I did. You know how all of the characters are introduced with rhyming couplets in the prologue as the narrator/author observes them? Well, my English teacher had us write our own character as if he/she was in Canterbury Tales. It had to be 20 or more lines done in rhyming couplet form. The character could be completely fabricated, or based on someone. My friend Pieter based his on me and called it The Reader. heart I based mine on Sevrus Snape and called it The Spy. ninja
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