Editing The Canterbury Tales (section)

==Later adaptations and homages==
===Books===
* The most well-known work of the 18th century writer [[Harriet Lee (writer)|Harriet Lee]] was called ''The Canterbury Tales'', and consists of twelve stories, related by travellers thrown together by untoward accident. In turn, Lee's version had a profound influence on [[Lord Byron]].
* [[E. Nesbit]]'s 1901 book ''[[The Wouldbegoods]]'' includes an episode where the children protagonists re-enact the pilgrimage, taking on some of the character roles.
* [[Henry Dudeney]]'s 1907 book ''[[The Canterbury Puzzles]]'' contains a part reputedly lost from what modern readers know as Chaucer's tales.
* Historical-mystery novelist [[P.C. Doherty]] wrote a series of novels based on ''The Canterbury Tales'', making use of both the story frame and Chaucer's characters.
* Science-fiction writer [[Dan Simmons]] wrote his [[Hugo Award]] winning 1989 novel ''[[Hyperion (Simmons novel)|Hyperion]]'' based on an extra-planetary group of pilgrims.
* Evolutionary biologist [[Richard Dawkins]] used ''The Canterbury Tales'' as a structure for his 2004 non-fiction book about [[evolution]] titled ''[[The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution]]''. His animal pilgrims are on their way to find the common ancestor, each telling a tale about evolution.
* Canadian author [[Angie Abdou]] translates ''The Canterbury Tales'' to a cross section of people, all snow-sports enthusiasts but from different social backgrounds, converging on a remote back-country ski cabin in British Columbia in the 2011 novel ''The Canterbury Trail''.
* British poet and performer [[Patience Agbabi]] is one of fourteen authors who worked together to tell the stories and experiences of refugees, detainees, and asylum seekers in a book titled [https://www.refugeetales.org/books Refugee Tales]. The collaborative efforts of the writers and displaced people create stories modeled after Chaucer's tale of journey in The Canterbury Tales. This project is rooted in the efforts of the [https://www.gdwg.org.uk Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group], a non-partisan advocacy group for detained people.

===Stage adaptations===
* ''[[The Two Noble Kinsmen]]'', by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, a retelling of "The Knight's Tale", was first performed in 1613 or 1614 and published in 1634. 
* In 1961, [[Erik Chisholm]] completed his opera, ''The Canterbury Tales''. The opera is in three acts: The Wyf of Bath's Tale, The Pardoner's Tale and The Nun's Priest's Tale.
* [[Nevill Coghill]]'s modern English version formed the basis of a musical [[Canterbury Tales (musical)|version]] that was first staged in 1964.
* In 2021, [[Zadie Smith]] debuted her first play, ''The Wife of Willesden,'' adapting the [[The Wife of Bath's Tale|Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale]] as told at a contemporary bar crawl, with the tale set in 17th century Jamaica. The work was originally performed in London<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ibekwe |first=Desiree |date=2021-11-11 |title=Zadie Smith's First Play Brings Chaucer to Her Beloved Northwest London |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/11/theater/zadie-smith-wife-of-willesden.html |access-date=2023-03-14 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Wyver |first=Kate |date=2021-11-18 |title=The Wife of Willesden review – Zadie Smith's boozy lock-in is a bawdy treat |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/nov/18/the-wife-of-willesden-review-zadie-smiths-boozy-lock-in-is-a-bawdy-treat |access-date=2023-03-14 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> and at the [[American Repertory Theater]] in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2023.

===Film and television===
* ''[[A Canterbury Tale]]'', a 1944 film, jointly written and directed by [[Michael Powell]] and [[Emeric Pressburger]], is loosely based on the narrative frame of Chaucer's tales. The movie opens with a group of medieval pilgrims journeying through the Kentish countryside as a narrator speaks the opening lines of the ''General Prologue''. The scene then makes a [[Match cut#Notable examples|now-famous transition]] to the time of World War II. From that point on, the film follows a group of strangers, each with their own story and in need of some kind of redemption, who are making their way to Canterbury together. The film's main story takes place in an imaginary town in Kent and ends with the main characters arriving at Canterbury Cathedral, bells pealing and Chaucer's words again resounding. ''A Canterbury Tale'' is recognised as one of the Powell-Pressburger team's most poetic and artful films. It was produced as wartime propaganda, using Chaucer's poetry, referring to the famous pilgrimage, and offering photography of Kent to remind the public of what made Britain worth fighting for. In one scene, a local historian lectures an audience of British soldiers about the pilgrims of Chaucer's time and the vibrant history of England.<ref>Ellis, Steve, ''Chaucer at Large'', Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000, pp. 64–65. {{ISBN|0-8166-3376-2}}.</ref>
* [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]]'s 1972 film ''[[The Canterbury Tales (film)|The Canterbury Tales]]'' features several of the tales, some of which cohere to the original tale and others which are embellished. "The Cook's Tale", for instance, which is incomplete in the original version, is expanded into a full story, and "The Friar's Tale" extends the scene in which the Summoner is dragged down to hell. The film includes these two tales as well as "The Miller's Tale", "The Summoner's Tale", "The Wife of Bath's Tale", and "The Merchant's Tale".<ref>Pencak, William, ''The Films of Derek Jarman'', Jefferson: McFarland & Co, 2002, pp. 178–9. {{ISBN|0-7864-1430-8}}.</ref> "The Tale of Sir Topas" was also filmed and dubbed; however, it was later removed by Pasolini, and is now considered [[lost film|lost]].
* [[Alan Plater]] retold the stories in a series of plays for BBC2 in 1975: ''[[Trinity Tales]]''.
* On 26 April 1986, American radio personality [[Garrison Keillor]] opened "The News from Lake Wobegon" portion of the first live TV broadcast of his ''[[A Prairie Home Companion]]'' radio show with a reading of the original Middle English text of the General Prologue.  He commented, "Although those words were written more than 600 years ago, they still describe spring."
* [[Jonathan Myerson]] directed an animated version of ''The Canterbury Tales'' in three parts from 1998 to 2000. The series was nominated for an [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] (as [[Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film|animated short film]]) in 1999 and won the [[BAFTA]] Award for Best Animated Film<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0188478/awards "The Canterbury Tales" (1998) – Awards]</ref> in addition to four [[Primetime Emmy]]s.<ref>[http://www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,667371,00.html HBO Receives 23 Emmy Awards(r) in 51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards(r) Competition, The Most of Any Network, and a Record For HBO]</ref>
* The 2001 film ''[[A Knight's Tale]]'', starring [[Heath Ledger]], takes its title from Chaucer's "[[The Knight's Tale]]" and features Chaucer as a character.
* In 2003, the BBC again featured modern re-tellings of selected tales in their six-episode series [[Canterbury Tales (TV series)|Canterbury Tales]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Canterbury Tales|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/canterburytales/|access-date=6 May 2007|publisher=BBC Drama}}</ref>

===Music===
* Recorded in 1965, [[Lester Trimble]]'s ''Four Fragments from the Caunterbury Tales'' sets to music four excerpts: "Prologe," "A  Knyght," "A Yong Squier," and "The Wyf Of Biside Bathe." It is available in the [[Internet Archive]].<ref>{{cite web
|title=Four Fragments from the Caunterbury Tales
|first=Lester
|last=Trimble
|author-link=Lester Trimble
|year=1965
|url=https://archive.org/details/lp_four-fragments-from-the-caunterbury-tal_lester-trimble-theodore-chanler}}</ref>
* British [[Psychedelic rock]] band [[Procol Harum|Procol Harum's]] 1967 hit "[[A Whiter Shade of Pale]]" is often assumed to be referencing the Canterbury Tales through the line, "as the miller told his tale." However, lyricist [[Keith Reid]] has denied this, saying he had never read Chaucer when he wrote the line.<ref>{{cite web|author=Butler, Mike|title=In truth they were at sea: Lives of the Great Songs – A Whiter Shade of Pale: Vestal Virgins, light fandangoes: Procol Harum's classic can be baffling. Mike Butler asked its authors to help|date=17 September 1994|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music-in-truth-they-were-at-sea-lives-of-the-great-songs-a-whiter-shade-of-pale-vestal-virgins-light-fandangoes-procol-harum-s-classic-can-be-baffling-mike-butler-asked-its-authors-to-help-1449408.html|access-date=24 May 2021|work=The Independent}}</ref>
* The title of [[Sting (musician)|Sting]]'s 1993 album ''[[Ten Summoner's Tales]]'' alludes to "[[The Summoner's Tale]]" and to Sting's birth name, Gordon Sumner.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Marienberg|first1=Evyatar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_A0VEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22ten+summoner%27s+tales%22+canterbury&pg=PT101|title=Sting and Religion: The Catholic-Shaped Imagination of a Rock Icon|date=2021|publisher=Cascade Books|isbn=9781725272262|location=Eugene, Or.|access-date=2021-07-10}}</ref>

{{Panorama |image=File:Canterbury-west-Winter-Highsmith.jpeg |fullwidth=6900 |fullheight=825 |height=165 |caption= [[Ezra Winter]], ''Canterbury Tales'' mural (1939), [[Library of Congress]] [[John Adams Building]], Washington, D.C. This mural is located on the west wall of the North Reading Room, and features the Miller, Host, Knight, Squire, Yeoman, Doctor, Chaucer, Man of Law, Clerk, Manciple, Sailor, Prioress, Nun, and three Priests; the other pilgrims appear on the east wall mural.<ref>{{cite web|title=On These Walls: Inscriptions and Quotations in the Buildings of the Library of Congress|website=[[Library of Congress]]|url=https://www.loc.gov/loc/walls/adams.html#norr|access-date=31 December 2012}}</ref>}}

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File:The Knight - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Knight
File:The Squire - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Squire
File:The Reeve - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|Oswald The Reeve
File:Canterbury Tales - The Miller - f. 34v detail - Robin with the Bagpype - early 1400s Chaucer.png|Robin The Miller
File:Chaucer cook.jpg|Roger The Cook
File:Wife-of-Bath-ms-2.jpg|Alison The Wife of Bath
File:The Franklin - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Franklin
File:The Shipman - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Shipman
File:The Manciple - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Manciple
File:The Merchant - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Merchant
File:The Clerk of Oxford from the “Ellesmere Chaucer” (Huntington Library, San Marino).jpg|The Clerk of Oxford
File:The Man of Law from the EllsMan of Law from the “Ellesmere Chaucer” (Huntington Library, San Marino).jpg|The Sergeant of Law
File:The Physician - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Physician
File:The Parson - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Parson
File:The Monk - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Monk
File:The Prioress - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|Madame Eglantine The Prioress
File:The Second Nun - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Second Nun
File:The Nun's Priest - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Nun's Priest
File:Friar-canterbury-tales.jpg|Hubert The Friar
File:The Summoner - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Summoner
File:The Pardoner - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Pardoner
File:The Canon's Yeoman - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg|The Canon Yeoman
File:Ellesmere Chaucer, mssEL 26 C 9, folio 153v, warmer image.jpg|Geoffrey Chaucer
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