The+Canterbury+Tales

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//The Canterbury Tales// were composed by Geoffrey Chaucer around 1400 CE. These tales serve as the first published use of Modern English.

//The Canterbury Tales// chronicles a story-telling contest between pilgrims making a journey to the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The winner of the story-telling contest receives a free meal and a free room at the Tabard Inn.

Chaucer's tone in writing these tales is largely ironic. The tales often tell us more about the person telling them. For example, the tale the Pardoner tells serves to highlight his severe hypocrisy and his religious and financial corruption (an observation that Chaucer generalizes to apply to all men of religious occupation).

In our classes, we will be studying "The Prologue," "The Pardoner's Tale," and "The Wife of Bath's Tale." At the conclusion of our study of these tales, we will view the 1964 film, //Becket//, a fictional interpretation of the events leading up to the murder of Thomas a Becket.



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