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Popular Chaucer: The BBC's Canterbury Tales
- Parergon
- Australian and New Zealand Association of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Inc.)
- Volume 25, Number 1, 2008
- pp. 171-189
- 10.1353/pgn.0.0041
- Article
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Abstract
Joining a growing corpus of cinematic treatments of Chaucer's texts, the BBC's Canterbury Tales (2003) is the first to offer versions of the tales in modern dress. In order to attract a wide commercial audience, the writers adapted Chaucer's tales to popular film and television genres while remaining true to the 'spirit' of the original texts. But the series also appeals to a smaller audience familiar with Chaucer, providing both the pleasure of intertextuality and some insight into those aspects of Chaucer's texts that continue to engage modern audiences.
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