The extent of Chaucerian bawdiness was certainly an eye-opener for many! ("Is this really six hundred years old?  But it’s so rude!  And so funny!”)  As well as a good measure of medieval earthiness, and there was much to admire in the poetic, musical and dramatic quality of the production.  From the comic grotesque of the Merchant’s Tale to the romantic passion of The Knight’s Tale, it seemed that light was shed on almost every facet of life, love and death.

It undoubtedly served as a useful revision exercise for the Upper Sixth girls studying Chaucer for their A level exam, and it also provided an entertaining introduction for the Lower Sixth to the exhilarating and hilarious work of an important, wonderful and often overlooked poet.