Summary Of The Canterbury Tales
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The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories set within a framing
story of a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral, the shrine of Saint Thomas Ã
Becket. The poet joins a band of pilgrims, vividly described in the General
Prologue, who assemble at the Tabard Inn outside London for the journey to
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.... every variety of medieval story at its best.
The special genius of Chaucer's work, however, lies in the dramatic interaction
between the tales and the framing story. After the Knight's courtly and
philosophical romance about noble love, the Miller interrupts with a
deliciously bawdy story of seduction aimed at the Reeve (an officer or steward
of a manor); the Reeve takes revenge with a tale about the seduction of a
miller's wife and daughter. Thus, the tales develop the personalities, quar ....
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