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LibraryThing member jveezer
Seymour Chwast is at it again with the Canterbury Tales, adapting another classic to his signature graphic novel style. He also did Dante’s Divine Comedy a couple of years ago and this one continues the “tradition”. While maybe not enough to help you pass a college level test on Chaucer, this
Of course, I am not encouraging anyone out there to skip the real deal. You should definitely read your Chaucer people! But Seymour gives you the gist of some of the tales in his trademark fashion here, skipping over some of the long rambling descriptions and getting to the meat of the narrative. I love how he has some of the characters popping up in the page margins (aka “the peanut gallery”) heckling the narrator to get a move on. In the knight’s tale, where Chaucer spends a good six pages of verse describing the amphitheatre that Theseus builds for the tournament for Emelye’s hand, Chwast has a character lean over the frame with the illustration of the amphitheatre and temple to tell the knight:
“Hey, all this is slowing down the story. Get on with it!”
For the Miller’s Prologue and tale, we have Chaucer himself stepping into the margin to warn us that “Readers should be eighteen or older.” Then, as we are winding down and getting into the Doctor’s tale involving the beautiful maid Virginia, we have the Friar heckling the author for “any tales about an ugly woman?”
And we have Chwast breaking down Chaucer’s notes to wives at the end of the Clerk’s tale. Where Chaucer says:
Superwives, stand up in your own defence!
Each is as huge and strong as a camel.
Then why permit a man to give offence?
You smaller wives, though feeble in battle,
Be fiercer than a tiger or a fiend,
Clack on and on like windmills, I counsel.
Chwast summarizes it and tells wives to:
Show off your figure, make your husband jealous, and confront him even if he’s in full armor!
All in all, this is an entertaining and quick graphic jaunt through the tales. For me, it was good that I had read them in their entirety but I suppose if you just want a quick study this could be it. Or maybe if you are thoroughly entertained by Chwast’s irreverent take, it will put you on the path to reading the real Chaucer. I’m looking forward to whatever classic he decides to tackle next!
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might be enough for you to squeak by in high school English if you were lucky enough to have to read a little Chaucer. In any event, you’ll be much more entertained than you would be reading Cliff Notes. Of course, I am not encouraging anyone out there to skip the real deal. You should definitely read your Chaucer people! But Seymour gives you the gist of some of the tales in his trademark fashion here, skipping over some of the long rambling descriptions and getting to the meat of the narrative. I love how he has some of the characters popping up in the page margins (aka “the peanut gallery”) heckling the narrator to get a move on. In the knight’s tale, where Chaucer spends a good six pages of verse describing the amphitheatre that Theseus builds for the tournament for Emelye’s hand, Chwast has a character lean over the frame with the illustration of the amphitheatre and temple to tell the knight:
“Hey, all this is slowing down the story. Get on with it!”
For the Miller’s Prologue and tale, we have Chaucer himself stepping into the margin to warn us that “Readers should be eighteen or older.” Then, as we are winding down and getting into the Doctor’s tale involving the beautiful maid Virginia, we have the Friar heckling the author for “any tales about an ugly woman?”
And we have Chwast breaking down Chaucer’s notes to wives at the end of the Clerk’s tale. Where Chaucer says:
Superwives, stand up in your own defence!
Each is as huge and strong as a camel.
Then why permit a man to give offence?
You smaller wives, though feeble in battle,
Be fiercer than a tiger or a fiend,
Clack on and on like windmills, I counsel.
Chwast summarizes it and tells wives to:
Show off your figure, make your husband jealous, and confront him even if he’s in full armor!
All in all, this is an entertaining and quick graphic jaunt through the tales. For me, it was good that I had read them in their entirety but I suppose if you just want a quick study this could be it. Or maybe if you are thoroughly entertained by Chwast’s irreverent take, it will put you on the path to reading the real Chaucer. I’m looking forward to whatever classic he decides to tackle next!
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LibraryThing member Stevil2001
Seymour Chwast is a cartoonist who apparently made a splash with a graphic novel version of Dante's Divine Comedy; he's followed it up with this, an adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. The whole poem is here: every tale and every prologue, condensed down into 143 pages. It's a
As you can see on the cover, the pilgrims are all on motorcycles. That's the Wife of Bath there; the back cover and the front/endpapers of the book show the rest of the pilgrims on their own bikes. (On the back, we see the Host driving his cycle, with Chaucer in his sidecar!) It's a delightful bit of imagery, and it's maintained throughout the rest of the book; the pilgrims always scoot around on their motorcycles as they tell their tales. But other than that, these stories are clearly set during medieval times, as everyone's dress and attitude is medieval. The tales themselves are told pretty straight visually; there's no attempt to transpose them to time or places other than the ones within which they are set. Why then the motorcycles? I don't know, but I like them.
The stories themselves are pretty condensed; they're also transposed into modern English, so you're certainly not reading this book for Chaucer's language. (Which is disappointing sometimes; "The Franklin's Tale" loses almost all of its punch without Dorigen's beautiful ruminations.) The condensing makes a lot of funny moments, since neither the narrators nor the characters have time to explain things in detail. Everything is communicated very matter-of-factly, such as when Lady Constance is delivered to the Syrian sultan in "The Man of Law's Tale":
The Sultan's mother was not happy with this marriage. "When we are Christians we will be slaves of the Church and we will have to renounce the Koran."
The truth was that she was an evil reptile.
I feel like I shouldn't like the condensing, but I don't mind it in general (once you get past the language, most of the tales don't feel like they lose a whole lot), and the matter-of-factness often serves to reveal the inherent absurdity of the situations, as above. It really doesn't work where the original humor of The Canterbury Tales gets undermined (I didn't laugh at this rendition of "The Miller's Tale," for example), but there were a couple other tales that felt flimsy.
The sense of this work primarily functioning as a commentary on the original is enhanced by Chwast's main innovation (since the stories remain unchanged and the art is played straight): what I came to consider the pop-up Chaucer commentary. Some of the tales would have Chaucer (or occasionally the Host) appear in borderless panels with comments about what was happening. Chaucer tells us that "The Knight's Tale" is "complete with swash and buckling" while before the Reeve speaks, he begs, "Gentlemen, I don't want my book banned in Birmingham." When Constance is about to murdered by another lover's mother, the Host asks, "What about all these terrible mothers?" These were my favorite moments in the book-- though The Canterbury Tales is a classic of English literature, there's no denying that it's a strange and unusual set of tales, often absurd to a modern audience, and playing this up is fun.
I haven't talked about the art much-- it's good. Chwast has a simply, sketchy style, which works well for the broad stories being told here. It emphasizes the coarseness of the sexual happenings, which is appropriate: this is The Canterbury Tales, after all. The lettering, on the other hand, is just a pain to read.
But like I said, I don't know what it's all for. I liked the commentary moments best, but there's not a lot of it. The art doesn't put too much of a spin on the story, and though it does its job, it's not particularly nice to look at. The motorcycles are nice, but they don't go anywhere. The condensation means you lose the language of Chaucer. On the whole, it's nice to read, but I want it to be more for some reason.
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bit of an odd project: not innately so, but I'm not sure what Chwast's mission is in adapting The Canterbury Tales, and as a result, I'm not so sure how I think about his adaptation.As you can see on the cover, the pilgrims are all on motorcycles. That's the Wife of Bath there; the back cover and the front/endpapers of the book show the rest of the pilgrims on their own bikes. (On the back, we see the Host driving his cycle, with Chaucer in his sidecar!) It's a delightful bit of imagery, and it's maintained throughout the rest of the book; the pilgrims always scoot around on their motorcycles as they tell their tales. But other than that, these stories are clearly set during medieval times, as everyone's dress and attitude is medieval. The tales themselves are told pretty straight visually; there's no attempt to transpose them to time or places other than the ones within which they are set. Why then the motorcycles? I don't know, but I like them.
The stories themselves are pretty condensed; they're also transposed into modern English, so you're certainly not reading this book for Chaucer's language. (Which is disappointing sometimes; "The Franklin's Tale" loses almost all of its punch without Dorigen's beautiful ruminations.) The condensing makes a lot of funny moments, since neither the narrators nor the characters have time to explain things in detail. Everything is communicated very matter-of-factly, such as when Lady Constance is delivered to the Syrian sultan in "The Man of Law's Tale":
The Sultan's mother was not happy with this marriage. "When we are Christians we will be slaves of the Church and we will have to renounce the Koran."
The truth was that she was an evil reptile.
I feel like I shouldn't like the condensing, but I don't mind it in general (once you get past the language, most of the tales don't feel like they lose a whole lot), and the matter-of-factness often serves to reveal the inherent absurdity of the situations, as above. It really doesn't work where the original humor of The Canterbury Tales gets undermined (I didn't laugh at this rendition of "The Miller's Tale," for example), but there were a couple other tales that felt flimsy.
The sense of this work primarily functioning as a commentary on the original is enhanced by Chwast's main innovation (since the stories remain unchanged and the art is played straight): what I came to consider the pop-up Chaucer commentary. Some of the tales would have Chaucer (or occasionally the Host) appear in borderless panels with comments about what was happening. Chaucer tells us that "The Knight's Tale" is "complete with swash and buckling" while before the Reeve speaks, he begs, "Gentlemen, I don't want my book banned in Birmingham." When Constance is about to murdered by another lover's mother, the Host asks, "What about all these terrible mothers?" These were my favorite moments in the book-- though The Canterbury Tales is a classic of English literature, there's no denying that it's a strange and unusual set of tales, often absurd to a modern audience, and playing this up is fun.
I haven't talked about the art much-- it's good. Chwast has a simply, sketchy style, which works well for the broad stories being told here. It emphasizes the coarseness of the sexual happenings, which is appropriate: this is The Canterbury Tales, after all. The lettering, on the other hand, is just a pain to read.
But like I said, I don't know what it's all for. I liked the commentary moments best, but there's not a lot of it. The art doesn't put too much of a spin on the story, and though it does its job, it's not particularly nice to look at. The motorcycles are nice, but they don't go anywhere. The condensation means you lose the language of Chaucer. On the whole, it's nice to read, but I want it to be more for some reason.
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LibraryThing member MeditationesMartini
For me it was nice to spend half an hour reviewing the events of The Canterbury Tales, but I'm a weird guy, and for people in general the value in Chaucer isn't factual--it's not like there's intrinsic value in knowing who Absalom or Chaunticleer is--it's historical and linguistic and aesthetic:
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t's in his magnificence. And if there's one thing this pointless graphic adaptation does, besides put the pilgrims on fucking motorbikes, it's drain all magnificence from the towering glory of Middle English prose. The art ranges from crudely expressive to plain ugly in a sub-Where's Waldo way, and the pitch for the book could have been "We'll take the Canterbury Tales and we'll make them worse." Show Less
LibraryThing member fundevogel
I really wasn't impressed by this. I read the original last month and with it fresh in my head this just falls flat. I knew it would have to cut down quite a bit, but this is hopelessly homogenized. It's no where near as raunchy, ironic, theatrical, bigoted or religious as the original. And once
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you strip away all of Chaucer's tone there really isn't much left. To paraphrase Lincoln, it's like a broth made from the shadow of a pigeon that starved to death. Show Less
LibraryThing member StephenBarkley
After thoroughly enjoying Chwast’s take on Dante, I was excited to snag a review copy of his Cantebury Tales. Unfortunately, expectations exceeded reality.
Chwast’s simple graphic style seemed too simplistic here. That leaves you with the story to carry the book. While The Divine Comedy seemed
On the positive side, this is an easy introduction to the structure and substance of Chaucer. When I finally get around to tackling the original, I’ll use Chwast’s book as a map.
Disclaimer: A review copy of this book was provided at no cost through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewer’s program.
Chwast’s simple graphic style seemed too simplistic here. That leaves you with the story to carry the book. While The Divine Comedy seemed
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suited to such drastic reduction, Chaucer’s legendary poetry didn’t fare as well. The 24 tales, each reduced to only a few pages, were not compelling enough to stand on their own.On the positive side, this is an easy introduction to the structure and substance of Chaucer. When I finally get around to tackling the original, I’ll use Chwast’s book as a map.
Disclaimer: A review copy of this book was provided at no cost through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewer’s program.
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LibraryThing member SeaBill1
Seymour Chwast's adaptation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales represents a reduction to the point of absurdity. None of the poetry comes through, just the plots of the stories - and only the plot high points at that. Even Cliff's Notes gives you more.
Chwast's drawing style is also reductionist, in
If only the adaptation of Chaucer's stories was of the same level of brilliance as the storytelling...
Chwast's drawing style is also reductionist, in
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that he uses the barest amount of drawing necessary to differentiate his characters, and move the stories along. The drawing is brilliant in its economy. If only the adaptation of Chaucer's stories was of the same level of brilliance as the storytelling...
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LibraryThing member angelikat
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The Canterbury Tales by Seymour Chwast
I will have to admit, The Canterbury Tales as written by Chaucer is one of my least favorite books, and actually I cannot even say that, as it is one of those books that I just can’t seem to read all the way through. Originally started in high
The Canterbury Tales by Seymour Chwast
I will have to admit, The Canterbury Tales as written by Chaucer is one of my least favorite books, and actually I cannot even say that, as it is one of those books that I just can’t seem to read all the way through. Originally started in high
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school, and picked up numerous times in the past, getting even a quarter of the way in is more of a chore than a pleasure, until now. After reading Chwast’s version of the tales I think I will give the original another try. The author has made this story accessible to all, although in a condensed form, he has not skipped over or edited out any of the insights that Chaucer was trying to get across. But the part that I think I like best about Chwast is that he does not ‘dumb down’ the book, the yeoman is still called a yeoman even though the name could very well have been changed in the adaptation for a more modern word. All in all this is a wonderfully illustrated and superb book that I highly recommend to anyone who, like me, has had a bit of a hard time with the original, or would like a stepping off point that will help them to take on Chaucer. Show Less
LibraryThing member commodoremarie
I wanted to like this book/graphic novel, I really did. The Canterbury Tales is full of rich description and funny stories, so it seemed natural that illustrating them would bring out the best. Instead, I was sad to see that a lot of the humor of the works was left out of their adaptation. The most
I tend to like Chwast's drawing style, but here it just didn't work for me. He oversimplified the best of the Tales and his art failed to bring the stores to life. I would not recommend this anyone with an existing appreciation of Chaucer - they will be disappointed - nor to any who are new to him - they will fail to see Chaucer's gift of comedy.
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stark example is perhaps the Wife of Bath. She's arguably Chaucer's most memorable tale-teller - funny, blunt, and oddly motherly - but Chwast reduces her to an old woman somewhat creepy. And while the Miller's Tale is done best of all, it still does not manage to capture the hilarity of a man kissing an ass and then poking the same with a red hot poker. The Prioress was handled so badly I wondered if Chwast overlooked Chaucer's satire completely - no little dog, no crusts of bread- what's left? Not much to satirize. I tend to like Chwast's drawing style, but here it just didn't work for me. He oversimplified the best of the Tales and his art failed to bring the stores to life. I would not recommend this anyone with an existing appreciation of Chaucer - they will be disappointed - nor to any who are new to him - they will fail to see Chaucer's gift of comedy.
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LibraryThing member dwilton
I wasn't expecting much, but still I was disappointed. Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" is one of the richest literary works in the English language. It is an exploration of the diversity of genres and narrative styles available in fourteenth-century England, the characters are fully rounded and
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fascinating, and Chaucer's language is rich in allusion and wordplay. In contrast, Chwast provides the bare bones of Chaucer's plots accompanied by simple, some might say crude, drawings. The simple plot outlines and the simple drawings just don't do any kind of justice to the original. If he had contrasted the bare bones plot summaries with detailed and deep drawings, using different drawing styles to mimic Chaucer's different modes of narrative, then Chwast might have had something. As it is, this is a dull retelling of Chaucer's magnificent stories accompanied by dull drawings. And as for putting the characters on motorcycles, what was the point? Had Chwast followed with other anachronistic elements, it might have been interesting. But as it is, it just seems to be an overreaching attempt to be edgy and hip. Show Less
LibraryThing member vetters
Let's break it down: Chaucer's Olde English poetry is pretty hard to understand. Even modern English translations are difficult for the average person/student to fully grok, which I frustratingly discovered during a university Chaucer course several years ago. The CliffsNotes study guide, with
At 143 pages of sequential black and white illustrations interspersed with handwritten dialogue, it's pretty easy to read and digest in an hour or two. Some reviewers have complained that it is over-simplified, and I don't disagree–but then again, I wasn't expecting a full-scale graphic novel interpretation. That would be really, really long!
This book is great for students (and especially visual learners) who are just trying to "get" what the The Canterbury Tales are all about before they dive into deeper analysis or understanding. I would also recommend it to Chaucer fans who have a sense of humor about the sanctity of the work.
Chwast took many liberties to adapt and shorten the stories while also adding some fun elements of his own, like the image of the pilgrims riding motorcycles. I was a little skeptical at first, but I came to enjoy the anachronistic details like that because it just made it fun. Though I did occasionally find the all-caps handwritten parts hard to read, some of the tales really came to life for me in a new way thanks to the artwork (I particularly enjoyed the diagram of who ended up in whose bed in the Reeve's Tale). Overall it was a fun read for me and I am happy to have this book on my shelf next to my big (and admittedly dusty) Chaucer textbook.
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concentration, helped. But I wish I'd had Chwast's graphic novel to start me off!At 143 pages of sequential black and white illustrations interspersed with handwritten dialogue, it's pretty easy to read and digest in an hour or two. Some reviewers have complained that it is over-simplified, and I don't disagree–but then again, I wasn't expecting a full-scale graphic novel interpretation. That would be really, really long!
This book is great for students (and especially visual learners) who are just trying to "get" what the The Canterbury Tales are all about before they dive into deeper analysis or understanding. I would also recommend it to Chaucer fans who have a sense of humor about the sanctity of the work.
Chwast took many liberties to adapt and shorten the stories while also adding some fun elements of his own, like the image of the pilgrims riding motorcycles. I was a little skeptical at first, but I came to enjoy the anachronistic details like that because it just made it fun. Though I did occasionally find the all-caps handwritten parts hard to read, some of the tales really came to life for me in a new way thanks to the artwork (I particularly enjoyed the diagram of who ended up in whose bed in the Reeve's Tale). Overall it was a fun read for me and I am happy to have this book on my shelf next to my big (and admittedly dusty) Chaucer textbook.
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LibraryThing member terriko
I definitely enjoyed this rendition of the Canterbury Tales, complete with nuns on motorcycles and carefully illustrated farts, but I guess I also felt it a little lacking. The simple drawings go well with the simplistic texts, and some of the tales lend them especially well to being drawn as if
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scratched out by a schoolchild telling a story for some laughs. But, perhaps because it's so condensed, it felt like there was an opportunity here to embellish for the graphical format that has largely been missed. Still, likely fun as a companion volume for those studying the tales or who just enjoy a giggle or two. Show Less
LibraryThing member Smiler69
Until now, Seymour Chwast was known to me as one of the founding partners (along with Milton Glaser), of Pushpin Studios, a design outfit which gained international recognition and was especially active from the 50s till the 80s, when their off-beat and often irreverent visual style was part of the
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avant grade of illustration and graphic design. I've never read the original [Canterbury Tales], but the description on the back cover of this graphic version had me thinking this would be a good way to approach the tales, which I've always been intimidated of because of the Middle English text. I can't say I was overly impressed with Chwast's drawings, though their graphic simplicity was effective in conveying the stories and the overall tone was very amusing. This book did make me all the more curious to explore Chaucer's original tales, which is, after all what had attracted me to it in the first place, so in that sense this Early Reviewers book fulfilled my expectations beautifully. Show Less
LibraryThing member andreablythe
Seymour Chwast takes Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and edits them into a playful and fun graphic novel with all the raunchy humor the tales deserve. The book is illustrated with mostly black-and white art is loose and playful and matches well with this revision of the classic poetry.
Let me first say
So, with that said, I enjoyed Chwast's version and I think it's a good book to read as an introduction before launching into the more difficult task of launching into the original. The simplified versions presented here give a good and amusing overview of what happens in the stories.
My one complaint is that the stories are perhaps too simplified, narrowed down to the most basic outlines of events, which is fine, especially since the illustrations fill in a lot of the details the text leave out. However, the text itself loosed nearly all of its poetry, and I would have liked it more if Chwast had preserved some more of the rhythm of the words.
Let me first say
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that I have only read The Canterbury Tales in part. The poetry is funny and beautiful all at once, but it's also a very dense and difficult read as well. So, with that said, I enjoyed Chwast's version and I think it's a good book to read as an introduction before launching into the more difficult task of launching into the original. The simplified versions presented here give a good and amusing overview of what happens in the stories.
My one complaint is that the stories are perhaps too simplified, narrowed down to the most basic outlines of events, which is fine, especially since the illustrations fill in a lot of the details the text leave out. However, the text itself loosed nearly all of its poetry, and I would have liked it more if Chwast had preserved some more of the rhythm of the words.
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LibraryThing member audramelissa
I enjoyed reading Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales in high school. But Chwast's adaptation is a fun and accessible read for those who may not enjoy the original.
LibraryThing member Amanda.Richards
OK so this was definitely a fun and very quick read. I know a lot of people complained about this book saying that it wasn't as good as the original, it didn't retain the pretty prose of Chaucer, the art was bad, etc. etc. However I think it was all of these things that made it entertaining.
Now, I
So for that I really liked it and would recommend it to others!
Now, I
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have never read the full Canterbury Tales (although it is on my TBR list) but I think that this book was a pretty good introduction to the topic. Because the author didn't try to retain the original language it made the story manageable and approachable to people who otherwise may not read it. The crappy art made the bawdy nature of the story even more amusing. Chaucer, during his time, was writing in the common tongue was he not? He wanted his works to be accessible and easily shared and understood by the masses, which is what this book does. It makes the stories accessible to the masses in a format that they are familiar with. So for that I really liked it and would recommend it to others!
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LibraryThing member Tuirgin
As much as I enjoyed Seymour Chwast's treatment of Dante's Divine Comedy, his Canterbury Tales never comes to life. Perhaps the success of Chwast's Divine Comedy was due to the inherently graphic nature of much of the Commedia and the sparseness of the comic's text—Chwast's Divine Comedy is
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something like a collection of single page posters of the most memorable scenes with little need for narrative. Chaucer's second masterpiece is an entirely different matter. The brilliance of Chaucer is both in the melody of his verse and in his varied, but often lively narratives, and this is something Chwast's comics cannot possibly deliver. Chaucer gives us a ribald Miller's Tale full of dirty slapstick. The infamous kiss in the dark and the vengeful poker to the bum are brimming with vulgar hilarity. Chwast gives us a stilted narrative with a zephyric pen and ink fart followed by what might as well be a scrub-brush to the bum. It isn't funny to see it. If the verses bring back giggling memories of raunchy middle school body humor, the comic embarrasses, reminding us of just how juvenile we once were. Much of the book seems to focus on Chaucer's ribaldry, and without any of the puckish charm of the English verses. These comic tales just fall flat amidst a swamp of limp prose narrative and boringly salacious imagery. Show Less
LibraryThing member questbird
A humorous and succinct adaptation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, updated with modern language -- and motorbikes for the pilgrims.
LibraryThing member bostonbibliophile
Meh. I was kind of bored and disappointed by this book. Chwast's adaptation of Canterbury Tales seems really simplistic to me, with drawings that didn't capture my attention or give me any feel for the story. I liked his Dante a lot more and I thought the black and white presentation really didn't
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LibraryThing member jchristophersilvia
Although nothing can replace the original tales, Chwast's graphic novel does an interesting job distilling the central themes and big moments of Chaucers's masterwork, and does so with visual panache. The prologue explanation of characters is marvelously concise. The selected moments of focus are
I would really recommend this as a way to get involved with the material for a student who is disconnected, out of the loop. Great visual representation, albeit a small/short one. A very visual presentation of Chaucer.
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of the utmost importance. Mr. Chwast has clearly become very familiar with Chaucer's work. The art style here is minimal, simple, and expressive. I wonder if more time might have been spent crafting backgrounds, but foreground are quite successful. My major complaint is with the inexplicable visual elements .... Why the motorcycles? Other unexplained visual elements abound. Not sure why they took this particular liberty when they did not bother with others others.I would really recommend this as a way to get involved with the material for a student who is disconnected, out of the loop. Great visual representation, albeit a small/short one. A very visual presentation of Chaucer.
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LibraryThing member sarahlh
It was . . . okay? I think I would have been better off with the original stories, and the art is rather pedestrian at best. But it was a quick, entertaining read and a decent intro to the bawdy humour and colorful characters of Chaucer's tales. Probably best suited for an upper high school student
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2011
Physical description
143 p.; 26 cm
ISBN
9781608194872