The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales[1], is a collection of 24 stories that run to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343–1400) [2]
The stories have often been adapted for stage performance and have been the thematic source of a number of original plays.
Among those performed in South Africa have been the following (for details of the play and its South African performances, click on the title to go to the particular entry).
Canterbury Tales
A British musical, with the music written by Richard Hill [3] and John Hawkins, and the lyrics by Nevill Coghill [4].
The Canterbury Tales (adaptation, 2005)
A trilingual South African musical adaptation by Darryl Nel, performed in English, Afrikaans and Xhosa.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer
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