Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories set within a framing story
of a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral, the shrine of Saint Thomas à 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 Canterbury.
Ranging in status from a Knight to a humble Plowman, they are a microcosm of
14th- century English society.
The Host proposes a storytelling contest to pass the time; each of the…