Chaucer Banned
The Lord Chamberlain has banned a dramatic version of “The Miller’s Tale,” one of the 600-year-old “Canterbury Tales” by medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer. The Lord Chamberlain told Keele University drama group that certain words and phrases used by Chaucer (1340-1400) in his saucy story about a man and his fickle wife and daughter could not be allowed on the stage in 1966. The group will ignore his advice to drop the plan to present a modern English translation in an entertainment at the Edinburgh Festival later this month. But they promised to delete some “lavatorial” expressions.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31153, 1 September 1966, Page 6
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