After an introduction in lines , the narrator begins the series of portraits lines Afterwards the Host. In the following the pilgrims gather and decide that the Knight should tell the first story. C K Catharina Kern Author. Add to cart. The language of Chaucer After Chaucer had retired about he began working on the Canterbury Tales: his innovation was that he wanted to create an English poetry that would be accessible to everybody. Afterwards the Host suggests the tale-telling contest which is then accepted by the pilgrims lines Sign in to write a comment.
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Chaucer likely wrote The Canterbury Tales in the late s and early s, after his retirement from life as a civil servant, and this is when he sets the action.
This was a time of great social upheaval in England. The plague had killed a huge percentage of the population, making way for social mobility that led to class tension. In the past, medieval society had been made up of three "estates," or broad groupings by occupation: military types, religious people like priests and nuns , and peasants.
But now, a new, middle class of artisans and merchants, of which Chaucer was a part, was taking over England. Their concerns and interests, as well as the conflict between their new, more cosmopolitan way of life and the traditional values of the "three estate" society, are behind of a lot of the conflict we see in The Canterbury Tales. Another important social issue at this time was the very lowest class's increased power.
Because so many able-bodied workers had died in the Plague, farm workers could now auction off their services to the highest bidder.
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