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    Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is a narrative poem told in verse about a group of 30 pilgrims who meet at an inn in London and agree to tell stories on their pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral. The pilgrims represent a diverse cross-section of medieval society, including knights, merchants, a miller, a cook, and Chaucer himself. Each pilgrim is to tell two stories on the way to Canterbury and two on the return, with the best storyteller winning a free meal. The tales vary in tone from religious to humorous to satirical and provide insights into the characters and society of late 14th century England.

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    Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is a narrative poem told in verse about a group of 30 pilgrims who meet at an inn in London and agree to tell stories on their pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral. The pilgrims represent a diverse cross-section of medieval society, including knights, merchants, a miller, a cook, and Chaucer himself. Each pilgrim is to tell two stories on the way to Canterbury and two on the return, with the best storyteller winning a free meal. The tales vary in tone from religious to humorous to satirical and provide insights into the characters and society of late 14th century England.

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    Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is a narrative poem told in verse about a group of 30 pilgrims who meet at an inn in London and agree to tell stories on their pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral. The pilgrims represent a diverse cross-section of medieval society, including knights, merchants, a miller, a cook, and Chaucer himself. Each pilgrim is to tell two stories on the way to Canterbury and two on the return, with the best storyteller winning a free meal. The tales vary in tone from religious to humorous to satirical and provide insights into the characters and society of late 14th century England.

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    Chaucers The Canterbury

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    Marina Spiazzi, Marina Tavella, Margaret Layton 2012

    Chaucers The Canterbury Tales

    1. Chaucers life

    Born about 1343. The son of a wine merchant. Received an excellent education. Found employment in the house of John of Gaunt, son of King Edward III of England. His skill and inventiveness as a writer, a clever mind and practical skills helped him raise his social status. Worked as a controller of the customs for the port of London. Took part in important diplomatic missions. Died in 1400 and was the first poet to be buried in Westminster Abbey, in Poets Corner.

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    Chaucers The Canterbury Tales

    2. The Canterbury Tales

    It is a narrative poem. It is told in verse. It contains a variety of narrative elements: the setting in time and place, the description of characters, the use of a narrator. It has links with the moral views of the time. It gives insight into individual characters as regards their lifestyles, their psychology and their experiences.

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    Chaucers The Canterbury Tales

    2. The Canterbury Tales


    It is an estates satire

    stock characters are presented

    from the three orders of society and the rising middle class
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    Chaucers The Canterbury Tales

    3. The structure
    A general prologue, where the pilgrims are introduced usually preceded by a prologue, which introduces the theme of the tale and sometimes followed by an epilogue

    Twenty-four tales

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    Chaucers The Canterbury Tales

    4. The story

    Thirty people, including Chaucer as narrator, meet at the Tabard inn in London. They join a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral and the shrine of Thomas Becket. The innkeeper suggests that every pilgrim should tell two stories on the way to Canterbury and two on the way back; the pilgrim who tells the best story will win a free dinner.

    The various tales are both religious and humorous, moral and satirical.

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    Chaucers The Canterbury Tales

    5. The pilgrimage

    Why a pilgrimage to Canterbury?

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    Chaucers The Canterbury Tales

    6. The style

    It is written in rhyming couplets (AABB) made up of

    iambic pentameters

    lines with ten syllables

    five feet following the stress pattern unstressed-stressed

    Example:

    And bathed every vein in such liquor

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    Chaucers The Canterbury Tales

    7. The language

    By the time Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales:

    Chaucer used a literary language shaped by French and Latin models but built upon the old popular tradition and on a deep knowledge of actual speech.

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    Chaucers The Canterbury Tales

    8. Characterisation

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    Chaucers The Canterbury Tales

    8. Characterisation

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