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Article: 'Like doing 19 one-act plays' at once; Royal Shakespeareans bring Chaucer's 'Tales' to lusty life.(SHOW)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 14, 2006
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Byline: Jayne Blanchard, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
"Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droughte of March hath perced to the roote ..."
When 14th-century bard Geoffrey Chaucer wrote that the month of April with its "shoures soote" (sweet showers) and "smale foweles maken melodye" (singing birds) inspired folks to go on saintly pilgrimages to "straunge strondes" (foreign lands), he could have been talking about the Royal Shakespeare Company, which crosses the pond with its new two-part adaptation of "The Canterbury Tales" to play the Kennedy Center tomorrow through May 7.
"The Canterbury Tales" - all 6 1/2 hours of it - provides ...