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Description: A fusion of Chaucer's medieval world of The Canterbury Tales and today's digital world. The characters are introduced, sometimes close to their medieval predecessors, sometimes a modern equivalent, and sometimes a blend of the two. Includes a wonderful reading in Middle English by Kristen Hughes of the ‘Prologue to the Canterbury Tales’, lines 1-18. (Librivox, public domain: https://archive.org/details/canterbury_prologue_librivox). This is the Project Gutenberg transcription of those lines:
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