Canterbury Tales. Synopses and Prolegomena. Text and Translations. How to Read Chaucer. Chaucer's World. Other Authors. Medieval Literary Genres and Themes. Courtly Love. Life and Manners. The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories, written in the Middle English vernacular, supposedly told among a group of pilgrims travelling from London to Canterbury. Chaucer uses the form, possibly based on knowledge of Boccaccio’s Decameron gained on a visit to Italy in , to provide a highly varied portrait of his society, both secular and religious/5(40). The Canterbury Tales, frame story by Geoffrey Chaucer, written in Middle English in – The framing device for the collection of stories is a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury, Kent. The 30 pilgrims who undertake the journey gather at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, across the Thames from London.
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer between and his death in , The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories within a frame story. The frame story involves the pilgrimage of 30 people traveling from London to Canterbury Cathedral to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket. Geoffrey Chaucer. F.N. Robinson. But nathelees, whil I have tyme and space, Er that I ferther in this tale pace. The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17, lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer. Set in England in the Middle Ages, stories of peasants, noblemen, clergy and demons are interwoven with brief scenes from Chaucer's home life and experiences.
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories, written in the Middle English vernacular, supposedly told among a group of pilgrims travelling from London to Canterbury. Chaucer uses the form, possibly based on knowledge of Boccaccio’s Decameron gained on a visit to Italy in , to provide a highly varied portrait of his society, both secular and religious. Bisson, Lillian M. (). Chaucer and the late medieval world. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN Cooper, Helen (). The Canterbury tales. Oxford guides to Chaucer (2 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN Pearsall, Derek Albert (). The Canterbury. The Canterbury Tales Summary. After a description of the spring, Chaucer the narrator introduces each of the pilgrims one by one. The form of the General Prologue is an estates satire: Chaucer is describing characters from each of the three medieval estates (church, nobility, and peasantry) with various levels of mockery.
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