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Originally Posted by Incognitas
Further to Grahams posting has anyone here ever read Chaucer?If you think Shakespeare is impeneterable it is nothing compared to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.The old english he used has long since disappeared and do we care?Do we heck.Agreed change for the sake of change is bad but as we grow,develop and progress as the human race,our languages are bound to change right along with us.
Incog.
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I did The Miller's Tale (one of Geoff's), Pygmalion (one of George's) Macbeth (one of Bill's) and Great Expectations (one of Charlie's) for EngLit O level.
Prior to that I was an avid reader - the sum of those tomes put me off books forever.
It did, nevertheless, inspire me that criminality, adultery, murder, subterfuge, chauvanism, lies, deceit and spin had a precedent in literature and centuries of life, and I have not looked back since
