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CANTERBURY TALES. There is something innocent and sweet about Geoffrey Chaucer. Unfortunately, the Chaucerian spirit is largely missing from this British musical. The chorus boys' codpieces are ample, but they scarcely camouflage the empty boisterousness of both dance and bawdry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Feb. 28, 1969 | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

CANTERBURY TALES. There is something innocent, sweet and perhaps inaccessible about Geoffrey Chaucer. Unfortunately, the Chaucerian spirit is largely missing from this British musical. The chorus boys' codpieces are ample, but they scarcely camouflage the empty boisterousness of both dance and bawdry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Feb. 21, 1969 | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the Chaucerian spirit is largely missing from a British musical called Canterbury Tales, which has not thrived on a sea change from London. Surprisingly commercial, it treats sex as a commodity and faith as an epilogue, in the manner of a Cecil B. DeMille devotional epic. Nothing is mod est about the show except its quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Pilgrims' Regress | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

CANTERBURY TALES. The Wife of Bath and other Chaucerian tales set to medieval rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The New Broadway Season | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

...Civil Code forbidding indecent exposure. But this is no scabrous little burlesque of the type so common during the period, meant to titillate the lubricious instincts of the week-end visitor to Paris from the other side of the Channel or Rhine. If La Brige reveals a Chaucerian part of his anatomy to 13,687 passers-by, it is through neither perversion nor delight in gratuitous undergraduate mischief. His morals are sound, his logic impeccable, his devotion to Justice--true Justice, that is,--beyond question. For, as he protests in his defense, "Justice and Law are two entirely different things...

Author: By Norman R. Shapiro, | Title: Boubouroche | 8/6/1962 | See Source »

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