The Canterbury Tales
It was soon after 1386 when Chaucer planned to write it .
The same year he wrote Prologue to the Legend of Good Women. General prologue
to the tales is completed near about 1387.
He used simplest way to
compose the stories . The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 tales in verse
and prose, some were not completed. There was a group which was going to the Shrine of Thomas Beckett at Canterbury and the
time was the spring of 1385 or 1387.
Some important information about the Canterbury tales:
The ideas were taken for
Boccaccio.
The host of the Tabard
Inn
There are 29 pilgrims,
including Chaucer.
Pilgrims were from every
class of society in England
The company never reaches
Canterbury
Only 23 pilgrims get
their turn
Some tales are unfinished
Prose tales – Chaucer’s
own tale of Melibeus and The Parson’s Tale.
All other tales are
composed in the decasyllabic or heroic couplet.
F.N Robinson remarks about chaucer’s characters “Chaucer’s
pilgrims are far more vivid and personal than either the Theophrastian
characters or the medieval figures with which they have been compared.”
The Canterbury Tales is the first finest poetic testament
of England. James Winny “Coherence and imaginative drive of a great work of
literature, and presents a firmly realized views of life. Of all medieval
poems, The Canterbury Tales gives a modern reader the strongest sense of
contact with the life and manners of fourteenth century England.”
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