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at last night's first night.(Theater Review)

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20051209
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Byline: PATRICK MARMION

THE CANTERBURY TALES by Geoffrey Chaucer The Swan, Stratford YOU never know what to expect with Geoffrey Chaucer. Lewd and licentious one minute, pious and philosophical the next.

His collection of verse stories told on a fictional 14th century pilgrimage to Canterbury veers between lechery, flatulence and drunkenness on the one hand and between beauty, piety and wisdom on the other. And expect no less from the RSC's rumbustious and passionate new staging.

Kicking it off we have the most profound of all Chaucer's stories, The Knight's Tale. ...

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