Canterbury Tales

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The title can refer to an of a number of stage adaptations, based on the original publication known as The Canterbury Tales[1], a collection of 24 stories that run to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343–1400) [2]

Listed below are those adaptations of the work that have been performed in South Africa under this particular title, as well as works based on the individual stories.


Canterbury Tales

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205

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