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In his own inimitable style, Terry Jones leads you through Chaucer's filthy and incredibly funny story of adultery, the feared approaching of the next flood and burnt bums. The Canterbury Stories broke the literary mould in lots of ways. It established British as an acceptable language for literature, where previously it had been almost specifically Latin or Norman France. It had been also main books to create a hyperlink between all the pieces of work in a literary collection. Before that an author had merely put together several portions that he considered interesting, in no particular order and with no connecting narrative. Chaucer chose a conference between pilgrims at the Tabard Inn on the road to Canterbury to supply the linking narrative for his Canterbury Stories. Several pilgrims swap their tales, with a completely individuals competitiveness and retaliatory jousting. The choice of pilgrims for his characters allowed Chaucer to construct types that wouldn't usually associate aside from talk. This recording of The Miller's Tale is a translation from the Middle British into modern terms by the main Chaucerian scholar, Terry Jones - yes, the Python one - who adds to his truly scholarly rendition of the written text a smattering of highly useful and attractive notes, recorded as he read. He also, of course, provides a particular aspect all his own to a tale of wicked bawdiness and bare asses.
