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Leaving Southwark, the travelers would have passed through Deptford, Greenwich, and ended their first day in the town of Dartford. From Dartford they would have traveled to Rochester, crossed the river Medway, then gone on to Sittingbourne, Ospring, and Boughton-under-Blee. Where are the pilgrims traveling in The Canterbury Tales? Geoffey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, written between …

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Geoffey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, written between 1387 and 1400, is a long poem concerning a group of thirty pilgrims on their way from Southwark, in south London, to the shrine of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury. Where did Chaucer’s pilgrims start from? The Tabard Inn plays a central role in the book, as not only …

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The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue & Frame Story Summary The action begins at a tavern just outside of London, circa 1390, where a group of pilgrims have gathered in preparation for their journey to visit the shrine of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury. When and where does the prologue take place in The Canterbury Tales? …

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The Canterbury Tales A woodcut from William Caxton’s second edition of The Canterbury Tales printed in 1483 Author Geoffrey Chaucer Language Middle English Set in Kingdom of England, 14th century Publication date c. 1400 (unfinished at Chaucer’s death) When and where is The Canterbury Tales set? A tavern and on a pilgrimage from London to …

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The middle class group consists of the following: the Merchant; the Man of Law; the Franklin; the Haberdasher; the Carpenter; the Weaver; the Dyer; the Tapestry-Maker; the Shipman; the Physician; the Wife of Bath; the Miller; the Manciple; the Reeve; and the Host. Who is middle class in Canterbury Tales? And Chaucer’s interest in middle …

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philosophy student. The Clerk is a philosophy student from Oxford, who claims that he originally heard the tale from Petrarch. What does the clerk do in the Canterbury Tales? The clerk spends his days reading and learning. Wherever he goes he always has a book with him. He might also be keeping records and administering …

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Lesson Summary In ”The Pardoner’s Tale”, the Pardoner, one such pilgrim, preaches that greed is the root of all evil, even though he is a greedy liar who sells pardons. What is the moral of the story in the Pardoner’s tale? Death is personified as a character, and he is symbolic that death is predictable …

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The Canterbury Tales was written a century after Beowulf, but still contains valuable aspects for comparison. As stated before, the characters in The Canterbury Tales are travelling on a pilgrimage. Is Beowulf part of The Canterbury Tales? Beowulf is not in The Canterbury Tales. The two literary works have been compared because they both contain …

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With the Monk’s portrait, we see another satire of religious figures who are supposed to live a monastic life of deprivation and hard work, but instead live a life of luxury and ease. Similar to the Prioress, the Monk is doing all kinds of things which, were he really pious, he would not. How is …

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The Monk is a fat man, which tells us that he is very well fed at a time when many were starving. He enjoys eating rich food and drinking good wine. He’s bald and dresses in fur and gold, which tells us that he cares more about what he looks like on the outside than …

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