Middle English Readings
The Crying and the Soun
These are links to web pages with excerpts from Chaucer’s works read by professors. The main purpose of these recordings is to help students improve their pronunciation of Chaucer’s Middle English. The emphasis is on accuracy of pronunciation, according to the most current scholarly thinking, though you will notice some individual variation among the readers.
Jane Zatta’s Reading of the First 42 Lines of the General Prologue
Podcasts
Great Writers Inspire: Chaucer
“Professor Daniel Wakelin discusses the work of Chaucer and explains how he was one of the first to use everyday spoken English as a literary language in the 14th Century.”
