The Book Club: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer with Catherine Illingworth | The Book Club
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- What makes The Canterbury Tales the most popular work of English literature ever? Penned by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century, this medieval collection of stories depicts a diverse group of characters and covers topics ranging from chivalry and deceit to religious corruption. Michael Knowles sits with Catherine Illingworth to discuss what he describes as “the most vulgar, bawdy, downright often disgusting book I’ve ever read.
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Catherine is so enthusiastic. Please invite her back more often!
Yay, Cathrine is amazing!!!! Thank you for having her on again.
Charming and highly intelligent as always, thank you Catherine for coming back.
This has impressed me to the point of starting the Everyman’s Library edition tomorrow.
That window kiss is funny! And fart jokes, too! 😂😂
Every guy watching this has fallen in love with Catherine.
Nah bro, though I truly respect her intelligence and her knowledge of Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales. 😊
You've got to do Tolkien next!!!
I think Michael doesn't like Tolkien. At least I remember reading a tweet of his saying something similar. 😢
TLDR
Missed: The group bonded and traveled together because then as is becoming now🤔it was safer to travel in large groups to ward-off robbers - then called footpad's and highwaymen.
So glad to know that they’re still doing these :)
Our literature teacher in h.s. made up memorize the Prologue in the original. Still remember some of it to this day. It may have been 1972.
I really adore the prologue.
OMg... I love Chaucer! Did my thesis on the Canon's Yeoman's Tale... thanks for the wonderful discussion.
The first time I read Nevill H. K. A. Coghill's translation of The Canterbury Tales was over 50 years ago (and, no, I don't live in The British Museum), and I remember laughing myself silly with the wit and depth of the Father of English Literature. This TV show I have just watched had chosen to pick on my favourites, and is pushing me to re-read them all -yet again. Thank you for the light-hearted approach that fits like a glove (particularly if you consider the metric structure of the original - I will leave it you to figure this one out.)
I didn’t expect raunchy comedy like “the Miller’s Tale” in classic literature.
It’s the Middle Ages! Puritanism hadn’t been invented yet.
What a charming young lady. Speaks insightfully in beautiful English. Knowles is alright.
I like that Scootish acksint, but my CC had a seizure.
"teehee she cried" IM LITERALLY DYING 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Tragedy do have a traumatic effect on people... like all other trauma we experience? Its almost impossible to forget and even the easiest to recall.
Its almost impossible to find someone who have known the story of romeo and juliet who cant recall the story ends!
Having just finished this, I wish I'd known that not all the tales are equal (yes some weren't organal). I suggest picking 1 or 2 at a time. Wife of Bath is essential. Just my opinion of course.
Catherine gives such great summarizations. I’m really excited to read the Canterbury tales now!
I'm reading it right now... Be advised: This is Ninja Gaiden or Battletoads reading level. You'll struggle with the 14th Century English and its weird spelling and somewhat strange word order.
The Prioress Tale is interesting
Sounds like real life to me. You plan a wedding then trip and break your neck walking down the isle. Oops!
thank you
The wife of Bath not very PC! Luckily the cancel squad on twitter etc are too ignorant of our treasured literature ...
PRAGERU!!!!!
The Millers tale is my favorite.
On what do Mr Knowles and Ms Illingworth base their claim that The Canterbury Tales is the most popular work of English literature? I consulted several lists of the "greatest books in English" and none mention The Canterbury Tales. I would bet that fare less than one percent of the people who read fiction in English each year pick up The Canterbury Tales.
It’s been popular for the longest period of time. It’s also the most influential (along with Shakespeare).
I enjoyed reading the original in high school, but I'm a linguist, so...
Prunella Scales is awesome at reading Chaucer.
The woman picking flowers is a mataphor for a woman who is acquiring vitues 😉 or at least that’s how I see it
Exactly. There's a song about it. R E S P E C T 😂
I was thinking of buying this book and going through it but I don't think so now
Why?
Do Dune!!!!
Killing the Witches next
Is it anything like "House Of Shades"!??? 😂
12th, 18 April 2023
War and Peace!
I am trying to give Knowles the benefit of the doubt.
This is starting badly.
Before he reaches 80 seconds, he is already crying, with tears in his regressive eyes, about Dante's poetic description of a fictional afterlife. 🤣
Anyway, keep going.....
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It did not get better.
I'm trying to understand.
Why is Mr Knowles relevant to some people?
Art can move people profoundly. Sad that you lack that capacity.
Michael “we can find middle ground with the left on immigration” Knowles
So only 1.25 million a year?
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I really like this woman, however she is incorrect. Women do not want equal partnership. Nor do they really want sovereignty over their men. The reason is because that would mean they would have to solve problems and they don't want to solve problems. No woman has ever had sovereignty over a man that she respects. Nor do they want mutual authority. Even in the case of the story, the man asks the woman to choose and that's somehow is the correct answer. Women don't want to choose. If you don't believe me ask a woman on a date and have her make the decision on where she wants to go. Men are meant to lead in the fashion of Christ. Thus to be Christ-like is what should be demanded of a potential husband.
So you know what a woman wants, more than the woman telling you? You do understand how ridiculous that sounds, right?
Michael “Trump’s rhetoric on immigration is a good example of fear-mongering” Knowles