The Canterbury Tales

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…

Satire refers to the use of a biting literary tool by writers in books, essays, poems, and other forms of literary works to communicate a certain message with the ultimate objective being to encourage positive behavior. Both Geoffrey Chaucer and Miguel de Cervantes use sarcasm and ridicule liberally and in…

‘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…

‘The Canterbury’ tale is a classic piece of literature by Geoffrey Chaucer written in verse form that gives the narration of a group of pilgrims. Its setting is toward the end of the fourteenth century. Moreover, the narration is part of a storytelling contest in which the pilgrims participate for…

The Canterbury Tales is a narrative written by David Wright and Geoffrey Chaucer telling a story around other stories. It is a frame narration of the 29 pilgrims a tavern. Tabard inn in Southwark, a few miles to London. They are amid Canterbury journey to martyr Saint Thomas Becket shrine…