2001 movie
A Knight's Tale, starring Heath Ledger and Mark Addy, is only loosely based on the Knight in
The Canterbury Tales: it concerns a young squire who meets Chaucer and enlists his help in becoming a full-fledged knight. It was written and directed by Brian Helgeland and is distributed by Columbia Tristar.
A compact disc of Trevor Eaton reading selections from The Canterbury Tales was released in 2000, marking the six hundredth anniversary of Chaucer's death. It is available from Pearl, of Sussex, England.
The Penguin Library edition of the Canterbury Tales, translated into modern English by Nevill Coghill, is available on six audiocassettes from Penguin. It was released in 1995 and again in 1999.
The Canterbury Tales were adapted to an opera, sung in English, available on two compact discs from Chandos.....
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