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This was an amazing presentation!!

Incredible! Bravo!

I love this! An incredible feat of passion, practice, and chutzpah. Really drives home just how clever and funny the Tales are. Would love to hear him perform the whole book!

Me when my friends start using "thee" and "thou" at random to speak 'Old English':

Absolutely wonderful - listening to this performance on a rainy morning made me so happy and brought tears to my eyes. This performance is simply phenomenal. Please do do more! Colin Gibbings is truly remarkable, conveying both the beauty and the meaning of Chaucer’s poetry with such surety and deft skill.

Brilliant. Colin is fantastic as usual.

Beautiful job sire 🎉👌🙌

Peter Robinson - Most enjoyable. Thanks to your presentation of these videos made some years ago, Colin Gibbing's brilliant performances have helped me become, at least in comprehension of the written word, 90% successful. That is, I can read the original Middle English (aided by a naturally excellent memory perhaps) version with high comprehension. These videos were key. Not so much Gwain and the Green Knight, though that too will 'fall.' I hope to conquer Gwain and understand it to the same degree when reading it off the page in Middle English some day. I've read that 'Gwain,' was composed between 1350-1400 and that is simply the dialect that makes it more difficult that Chaucer's 'South' Middle English. I'm no authority - you are. I doubt that it is the dialect creating the difficulty. I argue for a composition date of 1350 and that 50 years is 50 years less intelligible to we speakers of Modern or, New English. My feeling, purely a guess (I think) then, is that its relative age and not the dialect is the reason it is considerably more difficult. I would love to hear your expert opinion. Again, thanks to you and Colin for these brilliant videos. Breathtaking. Best, Allan

He reminds me of Danny Kaye towards the end. I love this ❤️

Brilliant, we can follow this amazing delivery, we can actually understand most of it, including the humour!

povero...sta tremando dall'agitazione <3

I love that "manly man" was a saying in the 1300s.

I never give comments online, but this is one of the best performances ever!

Peter Robinson - I'm years late saying - a fantastic service you've provided to the net,' and a memorable peformance.

Remarkable how talented Colin Gibbings is!

Many of the words that derive from French are really obvious in Middle English, they stick out like sore thumbs. I'm so glad we've anglicized the pronunciation of some of those words more than you hear here

Thank you so much for this! I’m studying English literature, I’m from Spain, and being able to hear the text in Old English helps me understand rhythm and pacing much more easily. Besides enjoying it much more. Of course I haven’t mastered the pronunciation of Old English either so I really needed this. I can’t help it but stop the video every few minutes to re-read the text with the actor’s voice in my head.

this was so helpful and so much fun to watch alongside reading the canterbury tales, it really enriches the experience. i wonder if some of the other popular tales were also performed, like the wife of bath's?

I mastered the text when I was a student 33 years ago. After watching this I wish I could learn the recitation as well.

قلت لحبيبي كن ما شئت ،كن عادلا كن ظالما كن متفهما كن قاسيا مجحفا ...كن ماتشاء كيفما تشاء ....والمهم ان لا تتوقف عن تدمير العواذل وان لاتتوقف عن ضرب وجوههم بالسيف ..ثم انني لا اصدق كل التصديق انك لم ترى الاحداث الاخيرة قبل حدوثها ولم ترى الفرص الكامنة في المأساة ....وبافتراض انك قابل للخداع حقا ...الاله نفسه يسمح لنفسه بالاندهاش والتفاجؤ اكثر من مرة في سفر التكوين!

How is this even possible ?.

This was unimaginably impressive ... I intended to just watch a bit to hear the beginning of the Prologue in Middle English and ended up watching the entire thing. Colin Gibbings, who played Chaucer, not only delivered the entire Prologue from memory, but did it in Middle English with great gusto, humor, and personality. This was an incredible performance. Bravo!

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Thanks for uploading! This is helping me so much for my Chaucer class

Outstanding performance!

Back! Haha! Thanks for this content ❤

Amazing!

By far the best recitation of the Caunterbury Tales I have ever heard.

This is truly an incredible feat! What a great performance! I love hearing middle and olde English. I sometimes wish we still spoke in a way like this. Thank you for preserving the ancient vestiges of our great English for us all to enjoy!

This is very special indeed.

Why does this sound just like Danny Kaye?

This just angers me

The accent is medieval? or Welsh ow Scottish?

"Please Sir, I want some more!"

This is quite outstanding. I found it by chance - why on earth isn't Colin Gibbings famous for it? Does nobody read Chaucer for fun any more?

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Yes! I love these! I love Middle English!

Upon hearing this, I find that there is actually far more innuendo in this work than I previously thought. I had never connected the line about the astrolabe before!

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He is amazing. Thank you for sharing. I'm using this to practice my middle english.

When you lie awake in the early hours of an English, April morning, listening to the bird song, you will recall the opening lines of the Prologue all your life. It is a celebration of Spring as it is experienced in a world that lives closer to nature than we do in the modern world. And it will always be in Middle English that you will hear the words.

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LOVED this. Who is performer and how did he do it? I was proud to memorize the first 18 lines! His pronunciation is exactly how I learned it. Most recitations I hear are different and, therefore, I think wrong.

Excellent performance

Holy shit, how is this video not more popular? Even the subtitles has a appropriate translation of modern English to accompany the middle english. Hi Sarah.

This was great! I love this fabliau! Well pronounced and well acted!

Sir terry Jones. You will me missed

Turn on the subtitles

👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻

Love love love this.I have an exam 4 days later and I can't tell u how much just listening to him read the prologue with middle English pronunciation has helped me.Thankyou for this.