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Geoffrey Chaucer was a soldier and a diplomat, a courtier and a poet. These days he seems to be treated mostly as a playwright. Five of his not-for-the-children Canterbury Tales are currently roistering around the stage of the newly revitalized Young Vic theatre.

Another Canterbury Tales, the musical version which was a long-running success, is being revived at another London theatre.

Chaucers 20 surviving tales are lusty stories supposedly told by pilgrims whiling away the miles as they trek to the shrine of Thomas aBecket in Canterbury cathedral. Theyre the fist true poems in English, and these days collaborators flock to give Chaucer a helping hand in climbing the footlights.

So at the Young Vic an actor robed as the local vicar shakes hands with arriving patrons, welcoming them to the annual Geoffrey Chaucer storytelling competition.

The contest is held on the tented vicarage lawn. The vicar turns host and introduces the finalists, who step forward one by one and tell their chosen tales. Ladies of the parish serve mulled wine and mince pies to the audience between stories.
Each of the five selected tales, acted by a versatile cast of seven, bears the mark of inventive direction. The Knights tale is acted almost in slow motion to convey the haunting flavour of courtly romantic love. The Cooks tale becomes a short and simple song.
The others, however the Reeves tale, the Wife of Baths tale and the Millers tale are rough and ready knockabout, an innocent celebration of what critics labelled classically sanctioned dirt.
Earthy old Chaucer probably would recognize little of it. There was no English theatre when Chaucer was born about 1340, and no English-language literature either. For him to write in English was revolutionary.
No one knows when Chaucer began The Canterbury Tales, but he worked on them for a quarter-century. They were still unfinished when he died in 1400, to be buried in Westminster Abbey as the first occupant of what we now call Poets Corner.

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