The Canterbury Tales | Summary & Analysis | Geoffrey Chaucer

[@bananasauz4337]

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.

[@juliamoss8576]

anyone else got a english test on this tomorrow ?

[@kevinandrews8002]

yes lol

[@akaneee7707]

Mee😭😿

[@fragux]

sessto senso

[@dayunsom]

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[@mali3002]

I probably have a quiz tomm

[@kristinplischke8461]

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

[@debbiesmith9970]

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

[@kaylainch3236]

Me too I also waste my time watching tiktoks :D

[@Jann8DD]

My teacher based the test on this video 👀👀

[@ejbearden2609]

Your teacher is an angel. 😭

[@giorgiaventuri3610]

We have to record a video based on this video 👁️👄👁️

[@debonairprincess4294]

Oh mine too 👁👁

[@zion30164]

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[@puspabhandari1849]

same

[@theodoreregis6671]

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.

[@himanigupta6593]

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

[@michaelmyers317]

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.

[@mcd5778]

Agreed... Strange times

[@wheesus]

if magically you read this in the span of the next 30 mins, can you please provide some articles that study: gender studies, neo marxism, feminism, and post-colonialism, of the work? my professor thought it's fun to apply such theories to medieval literature.

[@liaanabelarubido9239]

I have to site for a final exam and I have to explain The Canterbury Tales so I watched this video to learn more about the story and some things seemed "strange". Now that you mention that he states his opinions as facts I realize what is wrong. Thank you! I'm going to stick to my books!

[@UncleForHire]

Summary is a tough word for you huh

[@heywhysoserious]

what part of it was not true?

[@francescabertini8603]

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

[@michealibukunoluwa2530]

Thanks for this! This will be useful in my next class.

[@sebastianmclean5222]

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

[@mato_novy]

thank you soooo much, this really helped me!

[@nuralkaabi]

A great lecture! The life & Writings of Geoffrey Chaucer's Lecture 1: Introduction to Chaucer's Life & World. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnfPo36eiMyre68

[@noohashameer9504]

Thank you Sir. Great job😊

[@sleeplessbats9026]

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 ?

[@quiche6936]

super helpful video thanks!

[@mamathab2555]

thank you... great job👍

[@user-do3bk1uc4f]

i got a test today so thanks

[@younesshassani3381]

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

[@raymondwalsh7520]

Explanation...not explication.. Sorry, Just the teacher coming out in me

[@shajwanshaho4181]

it was really useful thanks a lot

[@charliechaplin2122]

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

[@custer264]

Intoxicated Lover he’s kind of sjw cultmarx isn’t he?

[@skpjoecoursegold366]

well done, thanks.

[@YoWhatsUpFellas]

Man I feel ancient

[@Aluiette]

studying while my father's yelling at me

[@sweetysavi2167]

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

[@sameeksha1301]

Great 👍

[@Annusingh-wx5oc]

Thanku sooo much sir

[@treratliff7097]

Abt to take my exam on this bs

[@emashikder3209]

Interesting

[@jonathanhunter7670]

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

[@silviaetna9874]

Boccaccio says thank you!!!

[@bozzwick]

Okay, but WHY are they going to Canterbury?

[@junegirl3572]

because of the cathedral there

[@takkunalol]

The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket was murdered in his cathedral over a disagreement with King Henry II. After Beckett was canonised, people from all classes and walks of life would go to the pilgrimage to the cathedral in Canterbury to visit the saint for having some miracle granted etc. The pilgrimage to Canterbury was very popular with the European West, as it was the closest. :)

[@caitlinmelendez719]

I have my final in 30 minutes 💀😃

[@AlexanderTheGrape445]

Great series!

[@matteovicariotto2290]

Ciao

[@Jack-fs2im]

nice vid thanx

[@baldevsinghsahiwal6157]

V nice elaborated

[@greggoreo6738]

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

[@tekmen8967]

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

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Selam :d

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Edo Manuto

[@krazykarmen6165]

Great💪

[@artsypanda4643]

Does anyone else have to do an assignment in this 😢

[@sonalsrivastava2747]

please let the video lesson go on only

[@widget0028]

Im pretty sure i read this is school. But I can not for the life of me remember what its about or anything about it

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[@jericb]

I fucking hated this piece of writing Thank you for explaining

[@randombsgo4367]

anyone else here after watching Rick and Morty?

[@kermitspillthetea9738]

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

[@rjakademi1095]

Check RJ Akademi channel for MCQs on Canterbury Tales

[@Ianux7]

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

[@Pinkkittie5006]

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

[@warrengwonka2479]

Not interested in the first famous book in understandable English?

[@innerspacesurfer]

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

[@by_Reshma]

Really?

[@Venusnity]

I seriously hate this book

[@JustConConnor]

So funny. I laugh

[@jehmarkandreic.dollentas3087]

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

[@dennisryan6370]

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

[@AlexanderLittlebears]

Chad anti-Semitic Chaucer > virgin Jew-loving Peterson

[@الحميريالحميريالحميريالحميري]

Magni ficence

[@عليسامي-ن5ذ]

You need to be little bit slow😂

[@jirkadolezal8127]

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[@Meramurshadhaqbadshah_75]

I am Watching this in 2024

[@solarteach]

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.

[@i.n.8004]

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[@elifkareni9623]

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!!!!

[@elifkareni9623]

i have read sir but you know it is not my own language i need to hear it from different ways :)

[@elifkareni9623]

i have read sir but you know it is not my own language i need to hear it from different ways :)

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[@-Roder-]

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[@tukamushabajudith352]

Wooow

[@lw1343]

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.

[@custer264]

P Martin cultural Marxism is real and very destructive.

[@Cookiemunster779]

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.

[@Broncoboi]

💤😴soooo boring

[@FaizanRaza-tr4if]

Ossm

[@sachsiriwardene7832]

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[@joe2125]

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

[@breadbaker5449]

soy

[@jordigalbiati9674]

Chaucer is a copycat of Boccaccio

[@hamishwallace596]

The fact you think the Canterbury tales is a plagiarism of the Decameron proves you have never read either. They are so different that the only thing connecting them is a similar structure not even invented by either Boccaccio or Chaucer. The Canterbury tales is universally the more popular and interesting work. Boccaccio literally plagiarised every single story in the Decameron from other countries stories. Italian literature has not been relevant since the renaissance period and even then Italy was starting to have to desperately try and keep up with English writers, playwrights and philosophers. English literature far exceeds Italian literature in both quality and influence. English is spoken all over the world. Italian is only spoken in Italy and Sicily. England's writers, playwrights and philosophers are read widely in every country in the world. Italy’s are only read when translated into English.

[@frankh.5378]

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

[@dainwinter818]

What then do you think of the nun's tale that featured Jewish individuals killing a little boy? The series of stories are good overall, but it is still important to consider the time in which it was written. I read the Canterbury Tales, too, and they were definitely there.

[@kmartins5604]

@@dainwinter818 How is that anti semitic? Thats like me writing a fictional story and having muslim characters become terrorists. Doesn't make me the author anti islam. This is the author using stereotypes to more accurately portray a story as stereotypes are things for a reason even if they're wrong.

[@imxastify4757]

fart.