An anthology of twenty-four stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400, framed as tales told by a company of pilgrims traveling together from London to Canterbury Cathedral. Spanning genres from courtly romance to fabliau and drawing its narrators from across medieval English society, it is considered one of the founding works of English literature and a major influence on the development of English as a literary language.
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Did Chaucer finish The Canterbury Tales?
No. The plan set out in the Prologue was left unfinished when Chaucer died on 25 October 1400.
No. The work is an anthology of twenty-four stories that Chaucer wrote between 1387 and 1400, and the plan he laid out in the Prologue was left unfinished when he died on 25 October 1400. There is also no record of how his work on the tales progressed.
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They are mostly in verse, and are presented as part of a fictional storytelling contest held by a group of pilgrims travelling from London to Canterbury in order to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.
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The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) are an anthology of twenty-four short stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.
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is an anthology of twenty-four short stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.
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An anthology of twenty-four stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400, framed as tales told by a company of pilgrims traveling together from London to Canterbury Cathedral.
Authored By: Geoffrey Chaucer, Lead section, authorship
The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) are an anthology of twenty-four short stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.
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framed as tales told by a company of pilgrims traveling together from London to Canterbury Cathedral
Written In Form: The Short Story, Lead sentence
is an anthology of twenty-four short stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.
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