The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

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The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Feature Menu Introducing the Selection Literary Focus: Characterization Literary Focus: Frame Story Reading Skills: Analyzing Style: Key Details

The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Chaucer’s Canterbury Pilgrims (1810) by William Blake. Engraving.

The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home? —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Take a Tour If you went on a tour today, what types of people would you meet? Do you think you might come across a “character” or two? Chaucer’s characters are the kinds of people he would have known in real life and observed riding toward Canterbury on the old pilgrimage road.

The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Chaucer used the East Midland dialect of Middle English. This dialect was the most common colloquial language at the time and became the basis for modern English.

The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Twenty-nine pilgrims are on their way to the shrine of Saint Thomas à Becket in Canterbury. The time is April, and the place is the Tabard Inn in Southwark (SUTH erk), just outside London. London Canterbury [End of Section]

The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales Literary Focus: Characterization Chaucer uses indirect characterization when he tells how each character looks and dresses This yeoman wore a coat and hood of green, And peacock-feathered arrows, bright and keen speaks and acts Her greatest oath was only “By St. Loy!” thinks and feels And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach.

The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales Literary Focus: Characterization Chaucer also uses direct characterization, when he comes right out and tells us what a character’s nature is—virtuous, vain, clever, and so on. There was a Friar, a wanton one and merry, A Limiter, a very festive fellow. In all Four Orders there was none so mellow, So glib with gallant phrase and well-turned speech. [End of Section]

The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales Literary Focus: Frame Story A frame story is a literary device that binds together several different narratives. It is a story (or stories) within a story. In The Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims’ journey is the outer story. The tales the pilgrims tell are stories within a story. The tales themselves also have thematic unity. [End of Section]

The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales Reading Skills: Analyzing Style: Key Details Chaucer had twenty-nine characters to introduce, so he couldn’t develop any one character at great length. Instead, he provided a few well-chosen details that would make each character stand out vividly.

The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales Reading Skills: Analyzing Style: Key Details As you read the Prologue, pay close attention to any details that help give you an immediate impression of a character. Keep a pen and notebook handy to jot down key details of dress, appearance, and behavior. Note that some details contradict what the characters think of themselves (or want others to think of them). [End of Section]