Natty Bumppo the Mohicans", by Hellmut Lange in the 1969 German TV series "Die Lederstrumpferzählungen", by Cliff DeYoung in the 1984 PBS mini-series "The Leatherstocking Tales" (which compressed "The Deerslayer", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "The Pathfinder" into four episodes), and by Lee Horsley in the 1994 TV series "Hawkeye". Natty Bumppo Nathaniel "Natty" Bumppo is a fictional character and the protagonist of James Fenimore Cooper's pentalogy of novels known as the "Leatherstocking Tales". Natty Bumppo, the child of white parents, grew up among Delaware Indians and was educated by Moravian Christians. In adulthood, he is a near-fearless warrior skilled in
The Canterbury Tales that the greatest contribution of "The Canterbury Tales" to English literature was the popularisation of the English vernacular in mainstream literature, as opposed to French, Italian or Latin. English had, however, been used as a literary language centuries before Chaucer's time, and several of Chaucer's contemporaries—John Gower, William Langland, the Pearl Poet, and Julian of Norwich—also wrote major literary works in English. It is unclear to what extent Chaucer was seminal in this evolution of literary preference. While Chaucer clearly states the addressees of many of his poems, the intended audience of "The Canterbury Tales" is more difficult to determine.