The Canterbury Tales | Summary & Analysis | Geoffrey Chaucer 

anyone else got a english test on this tomorrow ?

Beyond learning about The Canterbury Tales, I love this guy's enthusiasm and his smile at the end!

I know everyone else has already said this but the speaker's enthusiasm is genuinely super helpful in terms of keeping me invested. It's late and I have a mind that is very prone to wandering when tired but he's still managed to keep my attention despite that. Amazing, thank you so much for this.

who else is sitting there watching this for skl work bc you have to work from home bc of coronavirus

My teacher based the test on this video 👀👀

you are an absolute stunner and the way you explain is so smooth .Keep up the good work.

To those of you posting that you're here because you have a test tomorrow, please do not listen to this and go away thinking you have an understanding of The Canterbury Tales or Chaucer's England. I know this sounds harsh, but I can't the way this man glibly rails off opinions as if they are fact. For instance, his description the dynamics between men and women of Chaucer's time does not do the subject justice. It's far more complex and fascinating. Furthermore, he makes his claims without providing a shred of evidence. I've taught The Canterbury Tales for years, and the work deserves more detailed study than this. Take the time to read it, study the history surrounding it, and appreciate the seriousness and humor it contains. The characters portrayed and the stories they tell have so many similarities with who we are as individuals and a society. Sorry to be such a downer. Things like this just hurt my heart a bit.

I like your commentaries, you did a good job of explaining Chaucer's work. I use your video almost every semester. Chaucer's work depicted the past and the days of men in power. We can learn from the world and we can improve life from these tales.

Thank you so much. Love your enthusiasm, keep 'em coming please!

Should mention main source of inspiration was Boccaccio's Decameron.

I have an exam and it will be about Canterbury tales I don't know which one will be asked to me but I really got ver useful information from here thank youuuuuu!!!!

thank you soooo much, this really helped me!

Thank you Sir. Great job😊

thank you... great job👍

justify the reasons why Chaucer uses the magical, the supernatural, the miraculous, and the exotic in such tales as The Man of Law's Tale, The Squire's Tale, The Prioress' Tale, Clerk’s Tale and parts of others? how can i reply this question i did not find. someone can help me please ?

i got a test today so thanks

thanks for your general explication of this masterpiece work, it was really hopeful.

super helpful video thanks!

Abt to take my exam on this bs

well done, thanks.

it was really useful thanks a lot

Man I feel ancient

Great Masterpiece. Please make suchlike info about all the classical novels.

studying while my father's yelling at me

Thanku sooo much sir

Great 👍

I have my final in 30 minutes 💀😃

Interesting

I like your channel but i think if you add subtitle in some other language it wil be better (i want to turkish😁)

nice vid thanx

V nice elaborated

Great series!

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Awesome video, but as a huge fan of Chaucer, I have to say original the Tales were not

Thank you sir ?? Plzz give me ans. Who told the last story?

Okay, but WHY are they going to Canterbury?

Does anyone else have to do an assignment in this 😢

So funny. I laugh

Nice job Chaucher in copying Boccaccio, at least you did it well 😂

Cornucopia of characters...naw. not 'Cornucopia'...one might say...a Cornucopia outpouring of characters... but, as imagery, actor's normally don't easily pour from a ram's horn. Cornucopia is more than complicated and awkward as far as painting a picture with words. Peace. Happy days of Celebration to you and your family. Gregg Oreo long Beach Ca Etats Unis

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anyone else here after watching Rick and Morty?

please let the video lesson go on only

Nice vid... but kindly ans me is this literary work used to ridicule the government in the middle age?

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Magni ficence

Why do teachers think we care about this English would've been easier if they tried to give more interesting books

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the fact that you spend the first half of the video giving a disclaimer for how “problematic” a work of art of a man born in the 14TH CENTURY just turns me off from the channel as a whole. Most people are not as sensitive as you think and its not your job to coddle people

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I live in Lord Chaucer apartments. It's kind of a slum.

Check RJ Akademi channel for MCQs on Canterbury Tales

Who want to jump of a bridge with me CALP YOUR HANDS

I fucking hated this piece of writing Thank you for explaining

I seriously hate this book

Poor poor abused women of the world...Lord Chaucer today would be in more trouble than Jordan Petersen.

The author spends more time on social justice speak, and too little on the actual text. In so doing, is incorrect on many fronts. Women in England, while not the equal of men they were before the Norman conquest, were still more equal than anywhere else. The could and did own land, control property, collect rents, and will assets to whom they desired. Women in English culture were revered, even if it was not always the case within the French dominated aristocracy. It is not an accident that the first queens and female military leaders came from the Britain. Not equals, but significantly better off. Antisemitism yes, but less than was the case in other parts of Europe, Many writings were written in English before Chaucer, but French had dominated the English court since the Normans, consequently someone of his stature writing in English was a change, but part of a trend of re-Anglicization as noted by James Campbell. All in all, a video that fails in many counts.

You need to be little bit slow😂

It’s really weird to me to even mention anti-semitism as if there’s no nuance here. Christianity the dominant religion was something that would be offensive by its own nature. That’s going to lead to conflict and obviously it did considering the events in the Bible. Your idea of what’s problematic in history is problematic.

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Of course we have to have the apology to women before we start. Too bad we don't do the reverse when promoting women writers and their stories.

💤😴soooo boring

Chaucer is a copycat of Boccaccio

fart.

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There were no such antisemtic reference in the book! Such lies