Geoffrey Chaucer who is writer of The Canterbury  Tales must have had some education in Latin and Greek, but it is not known much. His gaining the knowledge of society made it possible to write The Canterbury Tales. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales as a collection of stories in a frame story, between 1387 and 1400.

The Canterbury Tales is written in Middle English  by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. It was time of The Hundred Years’ War.. The tales are the story-telling about a group of pilgrims that travel from Southwark  to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The Wife of Bath and The Friar are two of the most important characteristics.. The tales and the descriptions of its characters demonstrate an important side of English society ,the time, and especially the church. It is structurally similar to The Decameron, which Chaucer read during his first diplomatic duty to Italy in 1372.

If we rely on  the general prologue, Chaucer aimed that each pilgrim should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two tales when returning. He never finished his big project and even the completed tales were not finally revised. Scholars are not certain about the order of the tales. As the printing press had yet to be invented when Chaucer wrote his works, The Canterbury Tales has been passed down in several handwritten works. The Canterbury Tales is considered one of the greatest works produced in Middle English. The Canterbury Tales was Chaucer's masterpiece.

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