The Canterbury Tales: Love and Marriage
Play Description
This adaptation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales explores the bawdy humor of “The Miller’s Tale,” “The Merchant’s Tale,” “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale,” and “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue.” Prochaska infuses “The Franklin’s Tale” with a hefty dose of comedy as the characters navigate their way through a rocky coastline and an awkward love triangle. Faithful to the original, this text is accessible to a young twenty-first-century audience for whom it may be an introduction to Chaucer’s wise and gentle satire on love, marriage, and sex.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male, doubling)Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
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Press Quotes
“CANTERBURY TALES is not centered on sex but [it] does not shy from the pilgrims’ raunchiness, and … it was taken directly from Chaucer’s original stories of an odd-lot of women and men headed for England’s famous cathedral … Adapter Reiner Prochaska has pulled off a marvelous script, translated into modern English; he begins with Geoffrey Chaucer’s strange language that was spoken in his time, long before the age of Shakespeare, when England still paid homage to Rome and the pope. No religious overtones, let me reassure readers, creep into the tales of fellow travelers who are much more concerned with life’s harrows and ‘country matters’ than God’s or the Vatican’s doings. In that era, they could not count on sticking around a long time and that made every day precious. And that’s what Chaucer captured and playwright Prochaska affirms.” —Roy Meachum, The Tentacle
Book Information
Publisher | BPPI |
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Publication Date | 4/18/2018 |
Pages | 86 |
ISBN | 9780881457711 |
Special Notes
If original stage producers credits appear in bold below, all licensees are required to include them in the following form on the title page in all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play and in all advertising in which the full cast appears in size of type not less than ten percent (10%) of the size of the title of the Play:
THE CANTERBURY TALES: LOVE AND MARRIAGE was produced
by Maryland Ensemble Theatre (Tad Janes, Artistic Director)
opening on 26 March 2010
In addition, the following must appear within all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play:
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypublishing.com