Oxford Playscripts: The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer is dead! In a dramatic attempt to bring him back to life, four medieval alchemists invite a group of Chaucer's best-known pilgrims - the Knight, the Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, the Nun's Priest, and the Miller - to tell their Canterbury Tales.
Features
- Exciting adaptations of modern and classic novels, and a range of original plays
- Motivating activities focusing on performance, close text analysis, language and structure, together with varied creative tasks
- Insights into the plays by the authors and adaptors
- Notes on props and staging
Each play within the Oxford Playscripts series has been chosen to work well within a KS3/11-14 classroom or drama studio, and are ideal ways to introduce students to thought-provoking, challenging and accessible, classic and modern plays.
Authors
Geoffrey Chaucer and Martin Riley
Level
Ungraded
Language
English
Pages
128
Collection
Oxford Playscripts
Isbn
9780198320630
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