The Canterbury Tales Introductory Notes
Published on Nov 21, 2015
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The Canterbury Tales
Introductory Notes
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About Geoffrey Chaucer
(1340 ? -1400)
The
time
period--
The
Middle
Ages
1066-1485
At least once in their lifetime, people made a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket in Canterbury
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Becket had been the archbishop of Canterbury.
He was murdered in his own Cathedral.
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Canterbury
Tales
Chaucer uses the pilgrimage to "frame" his story about a group of travelers.
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They gather at the Tabard Inn near London for the 70 mile trip to Canterbury
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Harry Bailey, the innkeeper/host suggests they tell stories to pass the time.
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The travelers plan to tell 2 stories there and 2 back and the one who tells the
best story will win dinner.
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Within each tale, a major literary form of Medieval literature is represented
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The stories
- Romances (tales of chivalry)
- Fabliauxs (short, bawdy funny stories)
- Stories of saint's lives
- Sermons
- Allegories (symbolic stories in which characters abstract ideas)
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