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The Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer
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Henry II and Thomas Beckett
• Henry II wants to control the Roman Catholic Church
• Appoints Thomas Beckett as Archbishop of Canterbury
• The two argue and Henry II regrets his appointment
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Beckett’s Assassination
• Thomas Beckett is assassinated at Canterbury Cathedral when a few royal guards kill him
• Guards hoped to win favor with Henry II
• Henry II is disgusted with murder
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Canterbury Cathedral
• After Beckett’s assassination, Canterbury Cathedral becomes pilgrimage shrine
• Geoffrey Chaucer’s pilgrims journey to this cathedral
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Geoffrey Chaucer
• Born 1343• Died 1400• A son of a well to do
wine merchant• Spent his boyhood in
downtown London where the merchants had their shops
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Geoffrey Chaucer
• In his early teens, he was sent to serve as a page in one of the great aristocratic households of London
• The rest of his life was spent in close association with the ruling nobility
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Geoffrey Chaucer
• Earliest works: a translation of Roman de la Rose– a 13th century French poem
• First major work: Book of the Duchess
• Probably began writing The Canterbury Tales in 1386, and was his chief writing interest until his death
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The Canterbury Tales
• A collection of stories in a frame story
• Written between 1387-1400
• It is the story of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury
• The pilgrims, who come from all layers of society, tells stories to each other to kill time while they travel
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The Canterbury Tales
• Twenty-Two Tales• Chaucer’s original
plan was 120 stories• Two tales for each
pilgrim on the way to Canterbury and two on the way back
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The Canterbury Tales• Chaucer never
finished his enormous project and even the completed tales were not finally revised
• Scholars are uncertain about the order of the tales
• The Canterbury Tales has been passed down in several handwritten manuscripts
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The Canterbury Tales• No single literary genre
dominates The Canterbury Tales
• The tales include romantic adventures, fabliaux, saint’s biographies, animal fables, religious allegories and even a sermon, and range in tone from pious, moralistic tales to lewd and vulgar sexual farces
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The Canterbury Tales
• The form that Chaucer most often employs for his tale is the fabliau
• These tales generally concern lower class characters; the standard form has an older husband whose younger wife has an affair with a man of flexible social status
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