Welcome to the Canterbury Tales Mod for
TESIV: Oblivion

A cross-disciplinary team of researchers from the College of Arts and Humanities (English, Philosophy, and Digital Media) at the University of Central Florida are working on a virtual medieval world based on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
The objectives are These objectives are accomplished through a knight's quest game based on the Wife of Bath's Tale. The Wife's tale emphasizes the battle between men's perceived authority and women's struggles for power. In her tale, a knight must go on a quest to find out what women most want. The Wife's tale leaves a narrative gap in the knight's quest, which is where our adaptation of Chaucer's work is launched.

The knight interacts with Chaucerian characters on his journey--he meets everyday people like a cook, a reeve, a miller. In order to understand the perspectives of master and mastered, sacred and profane, the knight will dress as a woman to disguise his identity; enter a cathedral to converse with a priest; disguise himself as a peasant; and, later disguise as a monk to escape danger. Other characters are scripted to react differently to the noble knight when he is in disguise. This fetishism of clothing is reminiscent of several of Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies, notably Merchant of Venice, Midsummer Night's Dream, and King Lear. There are also two narrators, the knight operating from his perspective (male and noble) and the Wife (female and a widow), interrupting and offering her opinion on the action of the quest.