Editing The Canterbury Tales (section)

===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>