- A knight is punished with the threat of death if he cannot travel the land and discover what it is women want. Could make up absolutely ridiculous things that women tell him when he asks.
- Could also make him turn into an old man at the end rather than the old lady turning into a beautiful young woman once they are married
- Could change the setting to modern times searching on a college campus or in a big city
- The fiend, Satan himself, has to wait for people to curse things to his name before he can take them to hell with him. Could tell his story in first person or dialogue format as he travels completing his duties for the day and taking things from people.
- Dorigen waited faithfully for her husband to return but was so fearful that he wouldn't that she promised Aurelius she would marry him if he could make all of the stones at the lake disappear
- She didn't expect Dorigen to complete the task with the help of a wizard so she was devastated when she had to leave her husband, but Aurelius wouldn't have her since she was sad
- This would be an interesting story to set in present day with an impossible task
- Three drunk men set out to find Death who had killed their friend but they found an enormous pile of gold instead and claimed it for their own
- They all ended up plotting to kill each other and succeeding
- Could expand on their bumbling drunkenness and make them have ridiculous conversations while searching for Death and before they even found the gold
Bibliography: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in a modern adaptation called Chaucer's Story Book by Eva March Tappan (1908).
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