Lucy Vickery

Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales retold

Woodcut of the Wife of Bath from Caxton’s second edition of The Canterbury Tales, c.1484 [Credit: The Granger Collection / Alamy Stock Photo] 
issue 29 May 2021

In Competition No. 3200, you were invited to retell one of Chaucer’s tales in the style of another author.

The voices that dominated, in a medium–sized entry, were those of the Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, the Miller and the Nun’s Priest. Chaucer’s pilgrims were offered a free dinner for the best yarn, but this week’s winners will have to make do with a prize of £25 each.

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