Chaucer did much more than just write The Canterbury Tales.Ĭhaucer was born to a wine merchant somewhere between 13 in London.
Chaucer illustrates characters of different classes in medieval England, so the stories are rude, vulgar, moral, and funny, depending on who’s telling them. To while away the time on the road, the innkeeper suggests that everyone tells two stories on the way to the shrine and two on their way back. In the famous epic poem, which dates back to 1387, a group of around 30 pilgrims, including Chaucer, are traveling from the Tabard Inn in Southwark to St Thomas Becket’s Shrine in Canterbury.
The “father of English literature” has written many texts, but none loom as large as The Canterbury Tales. Poets all over the world have a lot to thank Geoffrey Chaucer for-after all, the 14th-century English bard gave them the iambic pentameter.
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