Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales (in English, The Canterbury Tales) is a work of English writer Geoffrey Chaucer, which has a structure similar to the Decameron of Boccaccio. The stories were written during the fourteenth century.

The Canterbury Tales is one of the most important works of English literature, and perhaps the best work of the Middle Ages in England. It was the last work of Geoffrey Chaucer. The version of the work that prevails today is derived from two different English manuscripts: the Ellesmere and Hengwrt manuscripts.

The stories, sritten in Middle English (some original, some not, two prose writings, and the rest in verse), are contained in a larger narrative and are counted by a group of pilgrims traveling from Southwark to Canterbury to visit the temple of Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.