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The Canterbury Tales By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales Is there a place that you would go as a pilgrimage, a place that is holy and sacred to you? Would it be sacred to anyone else? Explain what this place means to you and why.

Ellesmere Manuscript

Frame Tale: A Pilgrimage To the shrine of St. Thomas Becket Martyred in 1170 Pilgrimage begins in London At the Tabard Inn Host proposes each pilgrim tell 4 tales 2 en route to Canterbury, 2 back

Twenty-nine pilgrims in all Members of church are most numerous Members of emerging middle class Members of aristocracy

Literary Heritage of CT’s Chaucer writes in European literary tradition Familiar with A Thousand and One Nights and Boccaccio’s Decameron

Cross section of Medieval Society Knight is highest in rank Many professions related to church Emerging Middle class Chaucer is the narrator Host will judge the tales

Other works by Chaucer Parlement of Fowles Book of the Duchess Troilus and Criseyde Influence of Boccaccio, Petrarch and Dante

Chaucer’s Middle English Known as the London dialect Pronunciation misunderstood at first All syllables pronounced yonge=yong-e Influence of French Chaucer knew French and Italian Choose to write in vernacular

Literary Genres’ in CT’s Romance-tale of courtly virtue Fabliaux-bawdy story Animal fable Exemplum-moral tale to teach Saint’s lives

Canterbury Tales incomplete Chaucer died in 1400 Only finished 24 tales Had planned for 124 Buried in Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey Often called “Father of English Poetry”

Shrine to St. Thomas Becket Shrine to St. Thomas has been restored after precious stones and metals were taken during Henry VIII’s reign

Canterbury Cathedral Nave and Choir Historic and literary site Seat of Archbishop of Canterbury Head of Anglican Church and Worldwide Anglican Communion

Poets Corner—Westminster

Chaucer’s Tomb Present monument 1556