The Canterbury Tales Analysis

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer. The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained within a frame story and told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury…

Wife of Bath that is a character in “The Canterbury Tales” is depicted as a woman, who negates her traditional role and exercises her power over men. She is also a pilgrim like many others in “The Canterbury Tales”. In the prologue to the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer introduces all the…

‘The Knight’s Tale’ that is told by the Knight in “The Canterbury Tales” is a chivalric romance of courtly romance as it contains the features of chivalric romance such as a beautiful lady, a knight at her service and romantic association between the knight and the lady. The knight is…