Professor Marion Turner

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759 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 29 May

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The idea that a miller has just as much a right to tell a tale as a knight might tell a better tale.

So.

it allows Chaucer to tell lots of different kinds of tales and lots of different genres, lots of different forms.

So you really do get this kind of sense that there's something for everyone.

It's unfinished.

Chaucer hated finishing things.

He really hated it.

And I think it's because if you finish something, you kind of have to give it a meaning.

You have to say, this is what it means.

This is the winner.

And he hated that.

So most of his poems are unfinished or stagily overfinished in such a ridiculous way that it doesn't give you a resolution.

So they don't get to Canterbury.

Never mind get back home.

Yeah.

Some scribes did that.

So manuscripts, you get people who change the order.

So they have them get to Canterbury.

They write things that happened in Canterbury.

They turn them back around.

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