Six centuries after immortalizing British medieval author Geoffrey Chaucer’s seminal work “The Canterbury Tales,” an anonymous scribe has been unveiled as the long-haired son of an English landowner.

In 1985, Mr. Kilinski, my senior-year high school English teacher, put Geoffrey Chaucer’s magnum opus “The Canterbury Tales” on the syllabus. The plot: A motley crew of people from different walks of ...

For a week of English poetry about the month of April, it’s impossible not to begin with “Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote”: When that April with his showers sweet. The poetic voice of ...

Chaucer’s penitentiary story “The Parson’s Tale” can teach us how to find communal self-knowledge and true repentance. Caught between a tavern and a cathedral, between the slums and stews of Southwark ...

Geoffrey Chaucer is known as the “father of English literature” for his medieval classic The Canterbury Tales, a work that encouraged writers of his time to write in Middle English rather than French.

In ordinary times, the arrival of a new archbishop of Canterbury would be a headline that stood alone, especially if England's monarch had just approved the first woman to serve as the symbolic leader ...

Northern Broadside’s rich and ribald interpretation of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, rode into Southampton last night, bringing to life the sometimes bawdy, sometimes poignant stories of a disparate ...