CHAUCER, the critics tell us, possessed a genius eminently dramatic, and a matchless talent for story-telling, but frequently allowed his mediæval love of moralizing to defeat, for the moment, his ...

This witty, entertaining account of Geoffrey Chaucer’s slimy conman and his moral tale stands up well in 2014 complete with delicious topical twists, an enjoyable bit of interaction and some splendid ...

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This post was updated April 3 at 3:21 p.m. Leonard Koff turns to Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Pardoner’s Tale” as a philosophical test case. The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will host ...

I don’t envy rock and roll bands. Their job is no longer merely to get us dancing. They are competing with all our incessant bullshit: “Are you wearing that flannel ironically, bro?” “Have you heard, ...

"There were once three brothers¦" How many of us came to that opening phrase in "The Tale of the Three Brothers" in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 1 and smiled with pleasure at this evocative ...

“THE governor shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons,” states the constitution of Mississippi. But until his final days in office, Haley Barbour did not make much use of it. He granted no ...

Pardoner can't stop saving us from 'blah' punk. That's what Uncontrollable Salvation means, right? Or maybe Pardoner's some kind of Judge Dredd, a combination of judge, jury and savior whenever a perp ...

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When a Governor pardons a condemned criminal, it’s sometimes news; when his chauffeur does, it’s usually a crime. Last week a Fulton County (Atlanta) Grand Jury, in the process of asking questions ...