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Canterbury Tales
Title: Canterbury Tales
Category: Literature / European Literature
Details: Words: 1377 | Pages: 5.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories set within a framing story
of a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral, the shrine of Saint Thomas à Becket.
The poet joins a band of pilgrims, vividly described in the General Prologue, who
assemble at the Tabard Inn outside London for the journey to Canterbury.
Ranging in status from a Knight to a humble Plowman, they are a microcosm of
14th- century English society.
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…showed last 75 words of 1377 total…to him as his master; many of the plays of William Shakespeare
show thorough assimilation of Chaucer's comic spirit. John Dryden, who
modernized several of the Canterbury tales, called Chaucer the father of English
poetry. Since the founding of the Chaucer Society in England in 1868, which led
to the first reliable editions of his works, Chaucer's reputation has been securely
established as the English poet best loved after Shakespeare for his wisdom,
humor, and humanity.
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