In 1999, HBO created a short three episode television series covering some of the most memorable tales in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. The Claymation with the addition of various other animation styled series covered such stories as, The nun's priest tale, The wife of Bath’s tale, The millers Tale and The Pardoners tale. While The Canterbury tales series gave an easily understandable view of Chaucer’s collection of tales it leaves out many important pieces of text as well as symbols that give great significance to the stories.
Similar to the opening of Chaucer’s original opening the series opens with the character of Chaucer himself telling the audience a significantly shortened version of the General prologue. The shortened version
Similar to the opening of Chaucer’s original opening the series opens with the character of Chaucer himself telling the audience a significantly shortened version of the General prologue. The shortened version