The tale comes from the French tale Bérinus and exists in a single early manuscript of the tales, although it was printed along with the tales in a 1721 edition by John Urry. John Lydgate wrote The Siege of Thebes in about 1420.
His animal pilgrims are on their way to find the common ancestor, each telling a tale about evolution. 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.
Nevill Coghill's modern English version formed the basis of a musical version that was first staged in 1964. 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.
In 1961, Erik Chisholm completed his opera, The Canterbury Tales.
Nevill Coghill's modern English version formed the basis of a musical version that was first staged in 1964. 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.
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. Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1972 film The Canterbury Tales features several of the tales, some of which keep close to the original tale and some of which are embellished.
He commented, "Although those words were written more than 600 years ago, they still describe spring." 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. Television adaptations include Alan Plater's 1975 re-telling of the stories in a series of plays for BBC2: Trinity Tales.
Science-fiction writer Dan Simmons wrote his Hugo Award winning 1989 novel Hyperion based on an extra-planetary group of pilgrims.
He commented, "Although those words were written more than 600 years ago, they still describe spring." 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. Television adaptations include Alan Plater's 1975 re-telling of the stories in a series of plays for BBC2: Trinity Tales.
In 2003, the BBC again featured modern re-tellings of selected tales in their six-episode series Canterbury Tales. == See also == ==Notes== ==References== ==Further reading== Nicholls, Jonathan.
Only 10 copies of this edition are known to exist, including one held by the British Library and one held by the Folger Shakespeare Library. In 2004, Linne Mooney claimed that she was able to identify the scrivener who worked for Chaucer as an Adam Pinkhurst.
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins used The Canterbury Tales as a structure for his 2004 non-fiction book about evolution titled A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution.
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