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2. chaucer.fas.harvard.edu › pages › text-and-translationsText and Translations | Harvard's Geoffrey Chaucer Website

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   The Canterbury Tales. Synopses and Prolegomena; Text and Translations. 1.1 General Prologue; 1.2 The Knight's Tale; 1.3 The Miller's Prologue and Tale; 1.4 The Reeve's Prologue and Tale; 1.5 The Cook's Prologue and Tale; 2.1 The Man of Law's Introduction, Prologue, Tale, and Epilogue; 3.1 The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale; 3.2 The Friar's ...

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4. www.sparknotes.com › lit › the-canterbury-talesThe Canterbury Tales: Study Guide - SparkNotes

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   This SparkNotes guide examines its General Prologue as well as the best known and most read chapters—those relating to the Knight, the Miller, the Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, and the Nun’s Priest.

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   Read expert analysis on The Canterbury Tales including allusion, character analysis, conflict, facts, and foreshadowing at Owl Eyes.

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   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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7. chaucer.fas.harvard.edu › pages › literary-worksThe Canterbury Tales | Harvard's Geoffrey Chaucer Website

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   The Canterbury Tales. Reading guides and synopses for each tale can be found here: Prolegomena and Synopses. Texts and interlinear translations for each tale can be found here: Text and Translations.

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   Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?

   • 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. The 30 pilgrims who undertake the journey gather at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, across the Thames from London.

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   What are the Canterbury Tales?

   • The Canterbury Tales is a series of stories told from the perspectives of twenty-nine pilgrims traveling from London to Canterbury in order to venerate the shrine of Thomas Becket.

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   Is the Canterbury Tales a good book?

   • Set in medieval England, The Canterbury Tales provides a vivid depiction of the social and cultural aspects of the time. The characters, drawn from different classes and occupations, offer a cross-section of medieval society, allowing Chaucer to satirize and comment on the moral and social conditions of the period.

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   How many syllables are in the Canterbury Tales?

   • Not all the tales are complete; several contain their own prologues or epilogues. Probably influenced by French syllable-counting in versification, Chaucer developed for The Canterbury Tales a line of 10 syllables with alternating accent and regular end rhyme—an ancestor of the heroic couplet.

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9. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Canterbury_TalesThe Canterbury Tales - Wikipedia

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   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.