The Canterbury Tales: Geoffrey

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer (1340 - 1400) in the 14th century (two of them are in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, are contained inside a frame tale and are told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury to visit the shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The themes of the tales vary, from courtly love, to treachery.

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