14th century prose FOR SCIENCE!

bruce

I went to see the Canterbury Tales today in west London. It rocked something major, especially the following quote:

Nicholas wrote:

She is a ripe cherry, ready to be plucked
And thus must be...seen to...

Choice moments:
The face fart
The singing corpse
The singing hen


This has changed my view of the people in the 14th century....they were more filthy than we are

X'o'Lore

I don't know about more filthy but at least as much as us. Of course they probably didn't take baths so much back then and all that, so I guess you might be right.

Behemoth

Is that a quote from the Miller's Tale? Also, do you mean they performed the entire set of tales from The Canterbury Tales? I could understand if they left out the Knight's tale and the wife of Bath's tale, they're long.

mario

"By Saint Eloy!"

Amoeba Boy

I read a few of the Canterbury Tales. The only one I can remember was about this knight who raped a maiden, as punishment he had to answer some tough riddle or something. He searched all around and the only way he could gain the answer is if he swore to marry an old hag. He does, and at the wedding, she magiclly transforms herself into a beauitiful young woman.


Thus did the Canterbury Tales destroy any hope or faith I might have had in justice being served.

Serephel

Canterbury Tales is awesome!

"He started back and thought that something was wrong,
for he well knew that a woman doesn't have a beard;
he felt something that was all rough and long-haired,
and said, 'Fie, alas, what have I done?'"

And who could forget...

"Nicholas then let fly a fart
as strong as a thunderclap,
so that Absalom was almost blinded with its force;
but he was ready with his hot iron
and struck Nicholas in the middle of his arse:
the hot colter burned his buttocks so badly
that he thought he would die with the pain."

And that's just The Miller's Tale.

bruce

We saw:

The Knight's Tale
The Miller's Tale
The Reeve's Tale
The Cook's Tale
The monks tale
The prioresses tale (The one with the singing corpse)
The Nun's Priests Tale

mjc0961

Amoeba Boy wrote: »

I read a few of the Canterbury Tales. The only one I can remember was about this knight who raped a maiden, as punishment he had to answer some tough riddle or something. He searched all around and the only way he could gain the answer is if he swore to marry an old hag. He does, and at the wedding, she magiclly transforms herself into a beauitiful young woman.


Thus did the Canterbury Tales destroy any hope or faith I might have had in justice being served.

That's the worst punishment for rape ever. What happened to good ol' fashioned castrations? Or maybe they should try the hot colter up the buttocks thing.