Geoffrey Chaucer, Author, Peter Ackroyd, Retold by, Nick Bantock, Illustrator , retold by Peter Ackroyd, illus. by Nick Bantock. Viking $35 (436p) ISBN 978-0-670-02122-2
Ackroyd's retelling of Chaucer's classic isn't exactly like the Ethan Hawke'd film version of Hamlet
, but it's not altogether different, either. Noting in his introduction that the source material “is as close to a...
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Author, Barbara Cohen, Author, Trina Schart Hyman, Illustrator HarperCollins $26.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-688-06201-9
This carefully researched and lively edition of a part of Chaucer's masterwork is richly and beautifully produced. While Cohen admits that ``Chaucer's words are best,'' her prose adaptation of four of his tales captures the zest and vigor of Middle...
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Selina Hastings, Author, Geoffrey Chaucer, Author, Reg Cartwright, Illustrator Henry Holt & Company $17.95 (75p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0904-0
Like Charles Lamb's edition of Shakespeare, Hastings's loose prose translation of seven of Chaucer's tales is more faithful to the work's plot than to the poet's language. This is not a prudish retelling (even the bawdy Miller's tale is included...
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