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A list of all the characters in The Canterbury Tales. The Canterbury Tales characters include: The Knight, The Pardoner, The Wife of Bath, The Miller, The Host, Chaucer (The Narrator), The Squire, The Prioress, The Monk, The Friar, The Reeve, The Parson.
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse).The tales, some original and others not, are contained inside a frame tale and told by a collection of pilgrims on a pilgrimage from Southwark to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.
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In The Canterbury Tales, a group of pilgrims traveling to Canterbury Cathedral compete in a storytelling contest. This overarching plot, or frame, provides a reason for the pilgrims to tell their stories, which reflect the concerns sparked by the social upheavals of late medieval England. The General Prologue sets the scene for these societal ...
The Canterbury Tales are considered to be Geoffrey Chaucer's magnum opus, or "great work". Chaucer masterfully defines Christian morality while making a satire of the Church of England. Chaucer masterfully defines Christian morality while making a satire of the Church of England.
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Before the 1380s Latin, Anglo-Norman, and French were the languages used for writing. But in the 1380s people were beginning to write in their common tongue; as a result literacy rates grew. Writing The Canterbury Tales in Middle English, Chaucer was on the cutting edge of this change. In fact, modern scholars credit Chaucer with developing the ...
