The Canterbury Tales: A Character Sketch Of Chaucer's Knight
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Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, written in approximately 1385, is a
collection of twenty-four stories ostensibly told by various people who are
going on a religious pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral from London,
England. Prior to the actual tales, however, Chaucer offers the reader a
glimps ....
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.... and is in such a hurry to go on
his pilgrimage that he has not even paused before beginning it to change
his clothes.
The knight has had a very busy life as his fighting career has taken him to
a great many places. He has seen military service in Egypt, Lithuania,
Prussia, Russia, Spain, North Africa, and Asia Minor where he "was of
[great] value in all eyes (l. 63). Even though he has had a very
successful and busy career, he is extremely humble: Chaucer maintains that
he is "modest as a ....
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