Editing The Canterbury Tales (section)

===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.