The night I saw the show, the audience applauded every other Chaucer vignette but was stunned silent by the Prioress's tale. Maybe silence signals curiosity, but I doubt it. I was appalled.

Let’s look at one example. One of the tales that is told in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” is the controversial story told by a prioress called “The Prioress’s Tale.” ...

Many years ago when I taught Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,” a medieval 14th century, often satirical poem, my students and I read the “Tale of the Prioress.” What has this portion of the “Tales” to do ...

The Chaucer Review, Vol. 56, No. 4, SPECIAL ISSUE: The Ethical Challenge of Chaucerian Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century (2021), pp. 397-412 (16 pages) https ...