If you had to rewrite the canterbury tale, what would it be?

Chaucer left the Canterbury Tales unfinished when he died. He intended that the work be structured so that the pilgrims would tell two sets of stories: one set on their way to their destination and one set on the way back. But he only got the first part finished. With that in mind, I'd try to track down whatever plot sketches he left for the second part, study his development methods, and write a conjectural second part, in his style, based on those sketches.

True, it would be like Barry Cooper writing a conjecture of the first movement of Beethoven's Tenth Symphony based on the sketches Beethoven left for it when he died, but sketches are only that--sketches--and if they remain that way rather than be developed, they sit in museums and archives where only scholars can see them.

How can you improve on this?

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote

The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,

And bathed every veyne in swich licour

Of which vertu engendred is the flour;

Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth

Inspired hath in every holt and heeth

The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne

Hath in the Ram his halve cours yronne,

And smale fowles maken melodye,

That slepen al the nyght with open ye

(So priketh hem nature in hir corages),

Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages.

the spouse of tub, if i remember wisely her tale is on the subject of the knight that grew to become into to instruct his honor after raping a maiden. he grew to become into to seek for what women wanted maximum. sovereignty over their husbands. i think of this is the story you ought to %. reason your opinion can bypass as far as argue with or against there opt to administration those they love. i for one do no longer opt to be controlled and my fiance isn't controlling interior the least.

A one pager in modern English.

next you will be saying Charles dickens or Shakespeare. there enough people rewriting films let leave books alone

A lot shorter and in actual english.

i have just performed this at the leper chapel

in cambridge i player the miller

and i found swearing a lot helped

erm......i wood make it shorter and a lot more words that young people like myself cood understand lmao x

bit more interesting