Facts about Canterbury Tales
The winner received a crown and, as with the winner of the Canterbury Tales, a free dinner.
The date of the conception and writing of The Canterbury Tales as a collection of stories has proved difficult to ascertain.
Henry Dudeney (1857–1930) was an English mathematician whose book The Canterbury Puzzles contains a part which is supposedly lost text from The Canterbury Tales.
One-fourth of the tales in Canterbury Tales parallels a tale in the Decameron, although most of them have closer parallels in other stories.
The time of the writing of The Canterbury Tales was a turbulent time in English history.
The Canterbury Tales falls into the same genre as many other works of its day–a collection of stories organized into a frame narrative or frame tale.
The Canterbury Tales is one of the most important works of the Western literary canon.
Doherty wrote a series of novels based on The Canterbury Tales, making use of the story frame and of Chaucer's characters.
Many literary works (both fiction and non-fiction alike) have used a similar frame narrative to the Canterbury Tales in homage to Geoffrey Chaucer's work.
A total of 83 medieval manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales are known to exist, more than any other vernacular medieval literary work except The Prick of Conscience.
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse).
Glosses included in Canterbury Tales manuscripts of the time praised him highly for his skill with "sentence" and rhetoric, the two pillars by which medieval critics judged poetry.
The Canterbury Tales is among the first English literary works to mention paper, a relatively new invention which allowed dissemination of the written word never before seen in England.
The Canterbury Tales includes an account of Jews murdering a deeply pious and innocent Christian boy ('The Prioress's Tale').
The intended audience of The Canterbury Tales has proved very difficult to determine.
The Canterbury Tales can also tell modern readers much about "the occult" during Chaucer's time, especially in regards to astrology and the astrological lore prevalent during Chaucer's era.
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins used The Canterbury Tales as a structure for his 2004 non-fiction book about evolution–The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution.
The date of the conception and writing of The Canterbury Tales as a collection of stories has proved difficult to ascertain.
