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The Canterbury Tales by |
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| Proposed by: |
Geoffrey Chaucer Lesley Taylor, Rosalia Guastella, Tiziana Cignatta Liceo Classico e Linguistico, Rapallo, Italy
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| The author |
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 –
October 25, 1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat (courtier),
and diplomat. He is sometimes called the father of English literature.
Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame
narrative The Canterbury Tales. He is also credited by some scholars
with being the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the
vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin. From www.wikipedia.org
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| The novel |
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by
Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in
prose, the rest in verse).
The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained inside
a frame tale and told by a collection of
pilgrims on a
pilgrimage from Southwark
to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint
Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The
Canterbury Tales are written in Middle English. From www.wikipedia.org “The Canterbury Tales” Geoffrey Chaucer + CD. Black Cat Edition Step Four B2.1 New Edition 2003 Black Cat publishing, Cideb editrice, Genoa. ISBN 88-530-0023-6/ ISBN978-88-530-0023-1 This is an abridged version of the original text. |