# Episode 130: Dialect Dialogues

An episode of [The History of English Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/538608536), 22 Oct 2019, 56 min.

Audio: https://media.blubrry.com/historyofenglish/content.blubrry.com/historyofenglish/Ep130-Dialect-Dialogues.mp3

Geoffrey Chaucer was one of the first English writers to compose dialogue in regional dialects to reflect the way characters spoke in the different parts of England. In this episode, we explore the dialogue of Chaucer’s northern students in the Reeve’s Tale, and we also examine the Second Shepherd’s Play from the north of England which reflects a similar approach to regional dialects. TRANSCRIPT: EPISODE 130

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