Brady Meyer’s Reviews > The Canterbury Tales > Status Update

Fragment 3/10 done, including the Friar's and Summoner's Tales, featuring a devilish fiend, some greedy men of the church, and a fart.

We have finally met the Wife of Bath and as a result, life is so grand.

Fragment 2/8 done, the Man of Law's Tale.

With the Reeve's Tale and the unfinished Cook's Tale complete, I'm done with the first major section of text.

The Miller's Tale is surely why people still read Chaucer: unbelievably bawdy and risque with a fantastic comic payoff.

The Knight's Tale, the longest story in the collection, is complete! I've now switched to entirely Middle English, just referring to the Oxford translation for end notes and occasional clarifications. Chaucer's language is simply so beautiful it deserves to be read in its original.

"This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, / And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro. / Deeth is an ende of every wordly soore."