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The Canterbury Tales
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collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer
"The Canterbury Tales" is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer, featuring a group of pilgrims who tell tales to each other while traveling to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury. The work is considered a landmark of English literature that helped establish English as a serious literary language during a time when French and Latin dominated.
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- Author
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- First published
- 1478
- Editions
- 722
- Subjects
- Death, English Narrative poetry, Juvenile poetry, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature, great_books_of_the_western_world, Fiction, Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature, Storytelling in fiction
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- Instance of
- literary work
- Has part
- The Miller's Tale
- Author
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Country of origin
- England
- Narrative location
- Kent
- Image
- Canterbury Tales.png
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- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- Commons category
- Tales of Canterbury
- topic's main category
- Category:The Canterbury Tales
- influenced by
- The Decameron
- copyright status
- public domain
- publication date
- 1387-00-00
- language of work or name
- Middle English
- derivative work
- The Canterbury Tales
- title
- The Canterbury Tales
- different from
- Canterbury Tales
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Encyclopedic overview
The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) are an anthology of twenty-four short stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. They are mostly in verse, and are presented as part of a fictional storytelling contest held by a group of pilgrims travelling from London to Canterbury in order to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.
The Canterbury Tales are widely regarded as Chaucer's magnum opus, and they are revered as one of the paramount works of English literature. The Tales had a major effect upon the development of English literature itself. They may have been responsible for the popularisation of the English vernacular in mainstream English literature, as opposed to French or Latin.
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