This site, prepared for college English literature students, deals with the following aspects of Chaucer's General Prologue from "The Canterbury Tales": Genre, Form, Characters, Summary, Issues, and General Sources. Also contains interesting links to information on 14th century prices, and to an audio recording of the recitation of the first 18 lines of the prologue.In addition, links to quiz covering the Prologue, and a subsequent link to the quiz's answers and rationales.

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geoffrey chaucer, the canterbury tales

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canterbury tale, canterbury tales, chaucer, "canterbury tales", "the canterbury tales", chaucer, geoffrey

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

• This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information