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  2. The tales (mostly written in verse, although some are in prose) are 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.

  3. Sep 9, 2024 · The Canterbury Tales, frame story by Geoffrey Chaucer, written in Middle English in 1387–1400. The framing device for the collection of stories is a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury, Kent. Learn more about The Canterbury Tales in this article.

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  4. 'The Canterbury Tales' is a poem written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the late 14th century. Chaucer creates a group of characters who are going on pilgrimage, and they tell each other stories on the way. In the first section of the poem, Chaucer creates compelling descriptions of each pilgrim.

  5. Sadly, The Canterbury Tales remained unfinished at Chaucer’s death in 1400. Due to this, only 24 of the pilgrims’ stories were completed and the return journey from Canterbury is not included in the work (“The Canterbury Tales”).

  6. In-depth Facts: Narrator The primary narrator is an anonymous, naïve member of the pilgrimage, who is not described. The other pilgrims narrate most of the tales. Point of view In the General Prologue, the narrator speaks in the first person, describing each of the pilgrims as they appeared to him.

  7. May 8, 2019 · The Canterbury Tales is narrated by a character whom scholars identify as Chaucer-the-pilgrim, a literary character based on the author but presented as far more naïve, clueless, and trusting than the actual Chaucer could have been.

  8. Dec 14, 2018 · Chaucer’s most famous and memorable work, the Canterbury Tales (c.1385-1400), is a collection of 24 tales of very different types – chivalric romances, bawdy stories, saints’ lives, an animal fable, and moral tales – told by pilgrims on a road-trip from Southwark, London, to the shrine of St Thomas à Beckett at Canterbury. The tales ...

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