Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Canterbury Tales: Summary: Chaucer stops off at the Tabard Inn on his way to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket. He falls in with twenty-nine other pilgrims, and in the famous General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, describes them for us in great detail. All walks of life, from the lofty Knight to the lowly Plowman, are represented there. Under the guidance of the innkeeper, Harry Bailly, the pilgrims are each to tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two on the way back. The Knight's Tale is first (a long romance), followed by the Mille...
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