FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
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The Canterbury Tales
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Once Upon a Midnight’s Dream
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Tamerlane and Other Poems, Volume I
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17, 000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. It is widely regarded as Chaucer’s magnum opus.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: Geoffrey Chaucer’s original plan for his masterpiece The Canterbury Tales was to have each pilgrim tell one tale on the way to Canterbury Cathedral and one on the way back to London.
Detailed explanation-3: -Perhaps the most famous – and best-loved – of all of the tales in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, ‘The Miller’s Tale’ is told as a comic corrective following the sonorous seriousness of the Knight’s tale.
Detailed explanation-4: -Although writing in French or Latin was the norm at the time (as it was the language of the court and the church), Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in Middle English, the vernacular of the time period (“Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales” ).