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- The work is so detailed and the characters so vividly rendered that many scholars contend it was based on an actual pilgrimage Chaucer took c. 1387 CE. This seems unlikely, however, as Chaucer held a full-time position from the king at that time and any travels would have been noted in court records.
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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.
- The Pardoner's Tale
The Pardoner’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury...
- The Clerk's Tale
The Clerk’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury...
- The Monk's Tale
The Monk’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury...
- The Summoner's Tale
The Summoner’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury...
- The Miller's Tale
This bawdy story of lust and revenge is told by a drunken,...
- The Second Nun's Tale
This religious tale exemplifies Chaucer’s mercurial shifts...
- The Squire's Tale
The Squire relates an incomplete tale of the Tartar king...
- The Merchant's Tale
The Merchant’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury...
- The Pardoner's Tale
The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. It is widely regarded as Chaucer's magnum opus .
May 8, 2019 · The Canterbury Tales (written c. 1388-1400 CE) is a medieval literary work by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (l. c. 1343-1400 CE) comprised of 24 tales related to a number of literary genres and touching on subjects ranging from fate to God 's will to love, marriage, pride, and death.
- Joshua J. Mark
- Chaucer did much more than just write The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer was born to a wine merchant somewhere between 1340 and 1345 in London. He led an eventful life: He was a page to Elizabeth de Burgh, countess of Ulster; was captured and ransomed by the French in 1359; was a diplomat sent to Europe on various missions; worked as a customs officer at Wool Quay in London (wool export was a major contributor to the economy in the 14th century); and oversaw the construction of royal buildings.
- The Canterbury Tales is still incomplete. The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories, but Chaucer had planned more than 100. He started writing in 1387 and continued working on it until his death in 1400.
- Chaucer’s decision to write The Canterbury Tales in Middle English was significant. When Chaucer penned his magnum opus, most of England’s elite spoke French, thanks to the Norman invasion.
- There’s a free app that recites The Canterbury Tales in Middle English. To offer people the authentic Chaucer experience, a team of researchers at the University of Saskatchewan devised an ingenious, 21st-century tool: an app that recites the poem in Middle English.
The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer, is a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims as they travel from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket. Written almost entirely in verse (though there are shorter prose sections as well), each pilgrim was planned to tell four stories, two for the trip to the ...
The Canterbury Tales, Collection of stories by Geoffrey Chaucer, written in Middle English in 1387–1400. The collection’s framing device is a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury, Kent.
The 2001 movie A Knight’s Tale, starring Heath Ledger and Mark Addy, is only loosely based on the Knight in The Canterbury Tales: it concerns a young squire who meets Chaucer and enlists his help in becoming a full-fledged knight. It was written and directed by Brian Helgeland and is distributed by Columbia Tristar.
