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The Canterbury Tales was the last great work of Geoffrey Chaucer, for sadly he died in 1400, nearing his sixtieth year. Coincidentally, I was approaching sixty when the Young Nomads first contacted me about Canterbury Tales. Sadly this will be the last show I direct for the Young Nomads, but at least I'm alive as I write this note.
The tales selected by Neville Coghill and Martin Starkie have been carefully and cunningly chosen; what on the surface appears to be a bawdy romp has great depths with, I hope, a message for us all. The question for debate is the "battle of the sexes". Love, lust and marriage from the common themes, to quote:
Patterns in love: from simple country scandal To marriage matters - how a wife should handle A husband, or a busband handle wife. And all the problems of a married life |
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