Canterbury Tales - Chaucer Geoffrey
Canterbury Tales - Chaucer Geoffrey One of the greatest and most ambitious works in English literature, in the original Middle EnglishThe Canterbury Tales depicts a storytelling competition between…
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Canterbury Tales - Chaucer Geoffrey
One of the greatest and most ambitious works in English literature, in the original Middle EnglishThe Canterbury Tales depicts a storytelling competition between pilgrims drawn from all ranks of society. The Miller and the Reeve express their mutual antagonism in a pair of comic stories combining sex and trickery; in "The Shipman's Tale," a wife sells her favors to a monk. The tales are as various as the pilgrims themselves, encompassing comedy, pathos, tragedy, and cynicism.
In these twenty-four tales, Chaucer displays a dazzling range of literary styles and conjures up a wonderfully vivid picture of medieval life.This is a freshly established Middle English text with standardized spelling Others draw on courtly romance and fantasy: the Knight tells of rivals competing for the love of the same woman, and the Squire describes a princess who can speak to birds.