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The Canterbury Tales If you’re a bit of a literature geek like I am, then Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is one of the first things that comes to mind when thinking about the city of Canterbury in the South East of England. Even though Chaucer wasn’t from Canterbury, the town seems to have claimed him (or at least his tales) as their own, and in the centre of the city, you can find a Canterbury Tales tourist attraction which retells some of the more popular tales by means of animatronics and audio guides (available in a number of different languages). Unfortunately, when we visited in February 2008, they’d just implemented a new audio system, which meant that the audio and... [more]

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The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. In a long list of works, including "Troilus and Criseyde", "House of Fame", "Parliament of Fowls", the Canterbury Tales is Chaucer's magnum opus, and a towering achievement of Western culture. By casting a bumbling, credulous version of himself as tour guide, Chaucer created literature's first unreliable narrator. Structurally, the poem bears the influence of The Decameron, which Chaucer is said to have come across during his first diplomatic mission to Italy in 1372. However, Chaucer peoples his tales with 'sondry folk' rather than Boccaccio's fleeing nobles.