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The Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer
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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.
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Ellesmere Manuscript
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Frame Tale: A PilgrimageTo the shrine of St. Thomas BecketMartyred in 1170Pilgrimage begins in LondonAt the Tabard InnHost proposes each pilgrim tell 4 tales2 en route to Canterbury, 2 back
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Twenty-nine pilgrims in allMembers of church are most numerousMembers of emerging middle classMembers of aristocracy
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Literary Heritage of CT’sChaucer writes in
European literary tradition
Familiar with A Thousand and One Nights and
Boccaccio’s Decameron
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Cross section of Medieval Society
Knight is highest in rankMany professions related to churchEmerging Middle classChaucer is the narratorHost will judge the tales
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Other works by ChaucerParlement of FowlesBook of the DuchessTroilus and Criseyde
Influence of Boccaccio, Petrarch and Dante
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Chaucer’s Middle EnglishKnown as the London dialectPronunciation misunderstood at firstAll syllables pronounced yonge=yong-eInfluence of FrenchChaucer knew French and ItalianChoose to write in vernacular
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Literary Genres’ in CT’sRomance-tale of courtly virtueFabliaux-bawdy storyAnimal fable Exemplum-moral tale to teachSaint’s lives
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Canterbury Tales incompleteChaucer died in 1400Only finished 24 talesHad planned for 124Buried in Poet’s Corner of Westminster AbbeyOften called “Father of English Poetry”
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Shrine to St. Thomas BecketShrine to St. Thomas
has been restored after precious stones and
metals were taken during Henry VIII’s reign
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Canterbury Cathedral Nave and ChoirHistoric and literary siteSeat of Archbishop of CanterburyHead of Anglican Church and Worldwide Anglican Communion
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Poets Corner—Westminster
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Chaucer’s TombPresent monument 1556