View The Canterbury Tales Summary PNG. General prologue & frame story by geoffrey chaucer. The following texts are the property of their respective authors and we thank them for giving us the opportunity to share for free to students, teachers and users of the web their texts will used only for illustrative educational and scientific purposes only.
The pilgrims' stories are in various genres, including chivalric romance, arthurian romance, satire, beast fable, fabliau, and exemplum (an.
However, for the reasons unknown, the. The canterbury tales is a fictional account in a historical setting about pilgrims who tell stories on their way to a cathedral shrine. Congregating at the tabard inn, the pilgrims decide to tell stories to pass their time on the way to canterbury. In april, with the beginning of spring, people of varying social classes come as the party nears canterbury, the host demands a story from the manciple, who tells of a white crow that can sing and talk.
