This video employs visual and verbal cues to enhance understanding of Middle English. The background images contextualize the poetic lines, diction is clarified by gestures and speech patterns familiar to modern English-speaking audiences, and captions at the bottom of the screen encourage viewers to follow along with this recitation of the opening lines of The General Prologue of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

Please refer to the Middle English text paired with a Modern English interlinear translation on Harvard's Geoffrey Chaucer Website:
https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages...​

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Riverside Chaucer. Edited by Larry D. Benson 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.