坎特伯雷故事集的英文翻译~

The Canterbury Tales

《坎特伯雷故事集》内容提要

4月的一天，一群香客去坎特伯雷朝圣，投宿在泰巴旅店。次日，店主、香客与在此住宿的作者一起出发。店主提议在去坎特伯雷的路上每人讲两个故事，回来时再讲两个，被大家公认为最佳的讲故事者可以在回来时白吃一顿丰盛的晚餐。乔叟只完成计划中120个故事中的24个(包括两个未完成的)，其中22个为诗体，两个散文体。每个故事前均有开场语，全书有一个总序。作者用这种方式把各个零散故事连成一体。

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained inside a frame tale and told by a collection of pilgrims on a pilgrimage from Southwark to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.[1] The Canterbury Tales are written in Middle English. Although the tales are considered to be his magnum opus, some believe the structure of the tales is indebted to the works of The Decameron, which Chaucer is said to have read on an earlier visit to Italy.

【目录】

在泰巴德客栈
骑士的故事
派拉蒙和阿赛特
学者的故事
逆来顺受的格丽西达
巴斯太太的