Download or read book Chaucer for Children A Golden Key written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer for Children: A Golden Key is an adapted version of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, the prominent English author. The book contains some of the most famous Canterbury Tales in Middle English alongside the modern translation. Additionally, the text is completed with numerous footnotes, explaining the meaning of rare words and phenomena typical of Chaucer's time.

Download or read book Chaucer as Children s Literature written by Velma Bourgeois Richmond and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Geoffrey Chaucer is the major author for Middle English studies, he often receives little notice in studies of children's literature. However, there is a fascinating relationship between Chaucer and children's interests. This book examines in detail Chaucer stories retold for children--both the texts and the illustrations, which are excellent examples of the verbal and visual storytelling that are very important in children's literature. The popularity of certain Chaucer stories, their adjustment for children, and the historical, political, educational, and social contexts of the retellings reveal Victorian and Edwardian attitudes. The author also considers how retellings of Chaucer stories contributed to the traditional view of Chaucer as the Father of English and how this view of him was developed at the turn of the twentieth century as part of an expansion of general education and English studies.

Download or read book Chaucer The Miller s Tale written by Michael Alexander and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1986-11-11 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Michael Alexander: Michael Alexander is Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of St Andrews, UK. He is a poet and translator and has international experience of teaching English literature, both medieval and modern. Author Michael Alexander: Michael Alexander is Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of St Andrews, UK. He is a poet and translator and has international experience of teaching English literature, both medieval and modern.

Download or read book Chaucer for Children Illustrated written by Geoffrey Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 - 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages. He was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. While he achieved fame during his lifetime as an author, philosopher, and astronomer, composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his ten-year-old son Lewis, Chaucer also maintained an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Among his many works are The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde. He is best known today for The Canterbury Tales.

Download or read book Chaucer s First Winter written by Stephen Krensky and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer knows bears are supposed to sleep through the winter, but he doesn't want to miss all the fun. This sweet picture book celebrates winter and friendship. Full color.

Download or read book A Child s Book of Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk tales from England, Norway and India, as well as fairy tales from Grimm, Andersen and Perrault, fables from Aesop, and tales from the Arabian nights.

Download or read book Selections from Chaucer s Canterbury Tales Ellesmere Text written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lives of the Miller s Tale written by Peter G. Beidler and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his Miller's Tale, Chaucer transformed a colorless Middle Dutch account into the lively, dramatic story of raunchy Nicholas, sexy Alison, foolish John and squeamish Absolon. This book focuses on the ways Chaucer made his narrative more effective through dialogue, scene division, music, visual effects and staging. The author pays special attention to the description of John the carpenter's house, the suspension of the three tubs from the beams, and the famous shot-window through which the story's bawdy climax is enacted. The book's second half covers more than 30 of the tale's retellings--translations, adaptations, bowdlerized versions for children, coloring books, novels, musicals, plays and films--and examines the ways the retellers have followed Chaucer in dramatizing the story, giving it new life on stage and screen. The Miller's Tale has had many lives--it promises to have many more.

Download or read book The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Canterbury Tales with Other Poems written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chaucer for Children written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stories from Chaucer written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chaucer for Children selected from the Canterbury Tales and Minor Poems with a Metrical Version in Mod Engl by Mrs H R Haweis written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Chaucer and the Subject of History written by Lee Patterson and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer's interest in individuality was strikingly modern. He was aware of the pressures on individuality exerted by the past and by society - by history. Chaucer investigated not just the idea of history but the historical world intimately related to his own political and literary career. This book has shaped the way that Chaucer is read.

Download or read book Chaucer for Children written by H. R. Haweis and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Eliza Haweis's introduction to Chaucer's work and legacy for young readers. The book is widely credited with reviving Chaucer's poems for the modern world. These stories from The Canterbury Tales, along with some of Chaucer's shorter poems, were the first to be presented in their original Middle English format alongside contemporary English. In addition, the translations are supplemented by a variety of footnotes providing many fascinating details and background information, setting the scene, tone, and history of each of these wonderful tales.?Originally published in 1877, this edition is derived from the original book with 9 color illustrations and numerous black and whie illustrations throughout by the author. As always, this edition is complete and unabridged.

Download or read book Chaucer for Children written by H. Haweis and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully laid out-and perfectly accurate to the original-copy of one of the most famous books on how to teach Chaucer to children ever issued. Despite its name, this work is directed at explaining and teaching Chaucer-and is equally presentable to both youngsters and adults. This book, and its author, Mary Eliza Haweis (who wrote using her married name), are widely credited with reviving Chaucer's poetry in the modern world. These stories from The Canterbury Tales, along with some of Chaucer's shorter poems, were the first to be presented in their original Middle English format alongside contemporary English. In addition, the translations are supplemented by copious footnotes providing many fascinating details and background information, setting the scene, tone, and history of each of these marvelous tales. In addition to the extensive translations and retellings, the author also provided all of the illustrations: her pre-Raphaelite style drawings transforming an already classic piece of English literature into a work of art. "I believe that some knowledge of, or at least interest in, the domestic life and manners of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, would materially help young children in their reading of English history. The political life would often be interpreted by the domestic life, and much of that time which to a child's mind forms the dryest portion of history, because so unknown, would then stand out as it really was, glorious and fascinating in its vigour and vivacity, its enthusiasm, and love of beauty and bravery. There is no clearer or safer exponent of the life of the fourteenth century, as far as he describes it, than Geoffrey Chaucer. "As to the difficulties of understanding Chaucer, they have been greatly overstated. An occasional reference to a glossary is all that is requisite; and, with a little attention to a very simple general rule, anybody with moderate intelligence and an ear for musical rhythm can enjoy the lines. "How much of the beauty and natural swing of Chaucer's poetry is lost by translation into modern English, is but too clear when that beauty is once perceived; but I thought some modernization of the old lines would help the child to catch the sense of the original more readily: for my own rendering, I can only make the apology that when I commenced my work I did not know it would be impossible to procure suitable modernized versions by eminent poets." -from the author's introduction. Included in this work are a description of Chaucer's Pilgrims, and the following tales and poems: Chaucer's Prologue The Knight's Tale The Friar's Tale The Clerk's Tale The Franklin's Tale The Pardoner's Tale Complaint of Chaucer to his Purse Two Rondeaux Virelai Good Counsel of Chaucer. This edition has been completely reset and the illustrations have been restored to better than original through modern digital enhancement.

Download or read book Chaucer for Children written by H. R. Haweis and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully laid out-and perfectly accurate to the original-copy of one of the most famous books on how to teach Chaucer to children ever issued. These stories from The Canterbury Tales, along with some of Chaucer's shorter poems, were the first to be presented in their original Middle English format alongside contemporary English