The Knight's Tale: In Middle English (Poetry) [Audiobook, Classical] [Audio CD]

Product Description

The Knight's Tale of medieval wars and chivalry is the first tale told to the pilgrims as they set out to Canterbury. It concerns Theseus, returning from fighting at Thebes, two brother knights Palamon and Arcite, imprisoned but yearning for their loves. But the real hero of this recording is Richard Bebb who, with the help of Professor Derek Brewer, the leading expert on Chaucerian pronunciation, make the original Middle English not only comprehensible to the modern ear, but exciting.

By : Geoffrey Chaucer
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Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks; Unabridged edition (4 Sep 2006)
• Language English
• ISBN-10: 9626344156
• ISBN-13: 978-9626344156
• Product Dimensions: 14.6 x 12.5 x 1 cm
  

 

The Knight's Tale: In Middle English (Poetry) [Audiobook, Classical] [Audio CD]

 

Costumer Reviews

The item was listed as delivered form the UK but was shipped from the us and so took considerably longer. Otherwise all was fine.

Unless you are versed in M.E,you may possibly want to read or re-read The Knight's Tale in Modern day English just before listening to this. Otherwise it could possibly be rather troublesome to comply with in fact, it likely will be anyway, despite the fact that pieces of it should really be comprehensible. No a single definitely knows what M.E. really sounded like, as those pre-Luddite Middle English obdurately refused to record their spoken language. Towards the finish, having quite considerably given up on parsing the interpretation, I got a bit ear-weary, but carried on with it to the end. Enjoyable, of a sort.

 

The Knight's Tale: In Middle English (Poetry) [Audiobook, Classical] [Audio CD]