The Canterbury Tales

textual humanities text poem core Lifetime Path planned

Creators

Geoffrey Chaucer, author

Canon Rationale

A core Middle English work, included for the General Prologue, estates satire, pilgrimage frame, tale genres, vernacular literary form, and Chaucer's role in English literary history.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 39.

Evidence

handbook: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'The Canterbury Tales'.
museum record: Project Gutenberg, 'The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer', eBook no. 2383.

Audit Flags

translation dependency, version dependency

Completion unit: read the full extant work in Middle English or translation, or record an explicit core-tale selection if the path later narrows it.