The Canterbury Tales
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- | {{Template}} | + | {{Template}}'''''The Canterbury Tales''''' is a collection of stories written by [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] in the [[14th century]] (two of them in [[prose]], the rest in [[Meter (poetry)|verse]]). The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained inside a [[frame tale]] and told by a collection of [[pilgrim]]s on a pilgrimage from [[London Borough of Southwark|Southwark]] to [[Canterbury]] to visit the shrine of [[Saint]] [[Thomas Becket]] at [[Canterbury Cathedral]].<ref>The shrine was destroyed in the 16th century during the [[dissolution of the monasteries]].</ref> ''The Canterbury Tales'' are written in [[Middle English]]. Although the tales are considered to be his [[magnum opus]], some believe the structure of the tales are indebted to the works of [[The Decameron]] which [[Chaucer]] is said to have read when he visited [[Italy]] in the [[14th century]]. |
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