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Geoffrey Chaucer (1343? – 1400)
Chaucer was the son of a wine merchant and was brought up as a page in the
household of the Duke of Clarence and later of the King
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In Italy he discovered the works of Boccaccio, including Il Filostrato, which was the
main source for Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde
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The Canterbury Tales is important both as a literary work and as a historical
document
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Moreover, the stories and the portraits of the pilgrims are a lively gallery of medieval
society
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A group of 30 pilgrims,
including Chaucer himself, meet at the Tabard Inn in Southwark before setting off on
the pilgrimage
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In fact, the poem is unfinished, it includes
only about 30 tales
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For example, there are a Knight, a Prioress, a Monk, an Oxford student, a
Cook, a Parson, a Doctor and a Lawyer
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These are the opening lines of the Prologue
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These lines
are characterised by subtle irony and understatement, which are the result of the
juxtaposition of images of fertility and the mating season with the pilgrimage
situation
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In lines 19-42, the pilgrim narrator says that he has met 29 people at the Tabard Inn
and that he is going to join them on their journey to Canterbury
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