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Chaucer1 The Canterbury Tales By far Chaucers most popular work, although he talent have preferred to have been remembered by Troilus and Criseyde, the Canterbury Tales was unfinished at his death. No less than fifty-six surviving manuscripts contain, or at a time contained, the full text. More than twenty others contain rough part or an individual tale. The work begins with a General Prologue in which the narrator arrives at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, and meets other pilgrims there, whom he describes.

In the second part of the General Prologue the inn-keeper proposes that each of the pilgrims make out stories along the road to Canterbury, two each on the demeanor there, two more on the return journey, and that the best story earn the winner a free supper. Since there argon some thirty pilgrims, this would have given a disposition of well over a hundred tales, but in fact there are only twenty-four tales, and some of these are incomplete. Between tales, and at times even during a tale, the...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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