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Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. British Literature Of the Medieval Times. Chaucer. Father of the English language and poetry Working class Second only to Shakespeare. Canterbury Tales. Frame story. Historical setting. Canterbury Tales: overview, style. 2 tales down 2 tales back

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Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

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  1. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales British Literature Of the Medieval Times

  2. Chaucer • Father of the English language and poetry • Working class • Second only to Shakespeare

  3. Canterbury Tales • Frame story

  4. Historical setting

  5. Canterbury Tales: overview, style • 2 tales down • 2 tales back • unfinished • Observational • Indirect attacks • Rhymed couplets

  6. Canterbury Tales: literature • Cross section of medieval times and people • Prologue purpose is to introduce the piece by establishing setting, purpose, and characters

  7. Middle English • Whan that Aprille with his shouressote • The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote, • And bathed every veyne in swichlicour • Of which vertuengendred is the flour, • WhanZephirus eek with his sweetebreeth • Inspired hath in every holt and heeth • The tendrecroppes, and the yongesonne • Hath in the Ram his half cours y-ronne • And smalefowelesmakenmelodye, • That slepen al the nyght with open yë • (So priketh hem nature in hircorages), • Thannelongen folk to goon on pilgrimages, • And palmeres for to sekenstraungestrondes, • To fernehalwes, couthe in sondrylondes; • And specially from every shires ende • Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende...

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