Summary Of The Canterbury Tales
Summary of 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.
The Host proposes a storytelling contest to pass the time; each of the
30 or so pilgrims (the exact number is unclear) is to tell four tales on the
round trip. Chaucer completed less than a quarter of this plan. The work
contains 22 verse tales (two unfinished) and two long prose tales; a few are
thought to be pieces written earlier by Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, composed
of more than 18,000 lines of poetry, is made up of separate blocks of one or
more tales with links introducing and joining stories within a block.......
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Approximate Pages: 6 (250 words per double-spaced page)
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