Canterbury tales Quote by Rachel Vincent

James Agate, a great critic of the day, advised me that the way to learn your job properly was to learn Shakespeare, so I…

— Donald Sinden

Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.

— Andre Holland

I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think…

— Orlando Bloom

You got a job?" "Ignatius hasta help me at home," Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to…

— John Kennedy Toole

“I have worked with that ancient, fragmented, and incomplete narrative, with its barbarians, dragons, sunken cities, reeds and memory marks, twin-bladed warrior women, child…

— Samuel R. Delany

“The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree.”

— Robert Bolt

Apparently the complete works of Shakespeare packed quite a wallop. To think, my mother said I'd never find use for an English degree. Ha!…

— Rachel Vincent

Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a…

— Tennessee Williams

“For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a common man should rust" -The Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales-”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“Geoffrey Chaucer, the first author in the English language, devoted the longest story in The Canterbury Tales to the Asian conqueror Genghis Khan of…

— Jack Weatherford

“If you're going to have a complicated story,' he once explained, 'you must work to a map; otherwisw you'll never make a of it…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.

— Kevin Ayers