The pilgrims in Geoffrey Chaucer's great work, "The Canterbury Tales," set forth on their journey in April, that time of year when nature stirs into life. Looking backward across more than six centuries, biographer Peter Ackroyd sees Chaucer as a poet of springtime rather than autumn: someone who "believed himself to come from a freshly minted civilisation. It is probably no mere coincidence that this poet of fresh beginnings, the progenitor of Shakespeare, Milton and much of the rest of English literature, is the first subject Mr. Ackroyd has chosen to treat in his new series of short biographies bearing the title "Ackroyd Brief Lives." Biography, Mr. Ackroyd maintains (recalling Emerson's well-known pronouncement), offers the best way of understanding history: "To enter the conscious...
Paul Bettany has played Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Darwin, a 19th- century doctor on a British warship, a pro tennis player, an archangel, the voice of a computer in a hit comic book movie and its sequel, an imaginary friend, a police inspector, a gangster, a mad monk, a medieval priest and now, a very different sort of man of the cloth in "Priest," a postapocalyptic vampire horror action film. I don't know what it is," says the 39-year-old actor musing about his resume, "but I do seem to flip-flop between wanting to do something small and intimate to wanting to do something big and silly." He adds, "I think I have this real childish need to do different things each time.
Geoffrey Chaucer begins his famous "Tales of Canterbury" with his description of people going on pilgrimage. His florid description of the spring when the sap begins to flow in the plants and the earth is turning green again suggest that getting out of town and having some fun was the reason for the religious quest. However, at the end of the passage below he thoughtfully adds the pious reason that the restless pilgrims planned to stop in at Canterbury, which was to check out the shrine of the martyred Archbishop, St. Thomas Becket.
It's really hard to make another person who doesn't view it the same way as you understand that it's not sex. It's not like cheating on you. It's like being in a play, and that's it," Ariel says. "There's no emotion there, by far. "My mom saw the first [video] because one of her friends of a long time ... [saw] it on the Internet, and was like, 'Hey, you gotta see this,' and she was like, 'Oh my gosh, don't kiss me with that mouth; I've seen where it's been.' If [Geoffrey Chaucer] were alive today, it's hard to say how he might deem the adult entertainment industry's connection, if any, to the original fundamentals of [Valentine]'s Day. Perhaps he'd chuckle at some contemporary DVD titles; "Some are just hilarious," Ariel says. But it's more than likely he wasn't picturing a Boise dau...
COME THURSDAY, Hallmark will have a big smile on its face, flower shops will be busy and many females will come dangerously closer to getting a cavity. You know what that means? Yep, it's Valentine's Day week. Like most people, I'm of the opinion that this is a dumb "holiday."Why someone ( Geoffrey Chaucer?) felt the need to popularize a day to celebrate love, I have no idea. Shouldn't we do this every day or something? Eh, whatever. The real issue is that many of you are going to need to do something Thursday. So why not avoid bad movies?
LOS ANGELES -- Geographically, Paul Bettany has just arrived from London and Barcelona, where he was doing press for "The Da Vinci Code," after time in Mozambique and elsewhere in Africa, where wife Jennifer Connelly is shooting a film. Artistically, Bettany has arrived at the role of pop literature's most notorious albino after stints as a bestial gangster, a Napoleonic era ship's surgeon, a lovesick tennis player, Geoffrey Chaucer and an imaginary friend.
The Associated Press * In 1400, author Geoffrey Chaucer died in London.
Two plays -- one each for older and younger children -- will bring well-known literary tales to two stages this month at the Pittsburgh Playhouse in Oakland. Six Canterbury Tales," based on the 14th-century novel by Geoffrey Chaucer, is geared toward older elementary school children and teens.
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