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by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales is at once one of the most famous and most frustrating works of literature ever written. Since its composition in late 1300s, critics have continued to mine new riches from its complex ground, and started new arguments ... More

The Canterbury Tales is the last of Geoffrey Chaucer's works, and he only finished 24 of an initially planned 100 tales. The Canterbury Tales study guide contains a biography of Geoffrey Chaucer, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

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chaucer criticism

hi, im doing an assignment for school (an abstract) and I need an opinion based article about chaucer/his writing style or based on the general prologue of the canterbury tales, but there doesn't seem to be any. do you know of any articles? thanks!

Posted By debbie s #64841 at Oct 07, 2008 4:35 PM in The Canterbury Tales || 1 reply

The Host

Can anyone tell me what type clothing that the Host wore? What was his appearance like?

Posted By grace t #65062 at Oct 10, 2008 11:53 PM in The Canterbury Tales || 1 reply

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

I am a year 7 (aged 11) student and have been asked to find out why the author is so famous for his poems  today including ,what it tells us about england, society and type of people when he was alive

Posted By jake r #28947 at Nov 01, 2006 2:53 PM in The Canterbury Tales || 2 replies

reeves tale

okay so im working on an english essay and i cant seem to find what the source of the tale is and what the contemporary counterparts of the tale are. can someone help me please?

Posted By jd p #64700 at Oct 05, 2008 7:08 PM in The Canterbury Tales || 0 replies