Ebook {Epub PDF} The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

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 . 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. He is best known today for The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer was a crucial figure in developing the legitimacy of the vernacular, Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin/5(30).

The canterbury tales. Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London, the son of a vintner, in about He is known to have been a page to the What solution to these problems was reached by Geoffrey and Philippa Chaucer he never revealed. He only once alludes to her, or seems to do so. The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: The Tales of Caunterbury) is a 14th-century English work by Geoffrey Chaucer. It is a collection of twenty-four stories, some of which are incomplete. Some of the tales are in verse; others are in prose. Versions of The Canterbury Tales include: The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer edited by Skeat () (transcription project). The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene () (transcription project). Tales from Chaucer (). The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer ().

Published after his death in , Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales comprise a collection of 24 short stories, presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The collection has been revered for centuries as one of the most important works of English literature. 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. 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.