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The Canterbury Tales Summary & Study Guide Description
The Canterbury Tales Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
This detailed literature summary also contains Further Reading on The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
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The Prologue
In
the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer introduces the
speaker of the poem as a man named Chaucer, who is traveling from London with
a group of strangers to visit Canterbury, a borough to the southeast of
London. This group of people is thrown together when they travel together on a
trip to the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket, who was murdered in Canterbury
in 1170. The Prologue gives a brief description of the setting as they
assemble at the Tibard Inn in Southwark to prepare for their trip. It
describes each of the pilgrims, including ones who were meant to be discussed
in sections of the book that were never written before Chaucer died. After the
introductions, the Host, who owns the inn that...
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