General Prologue
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The "General Prologue" is the first part of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It introduces the frame story, in which a group of pilgrims travelling to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbur
The first lines from the General Prologue at the opening folio of the Hengwrt manuscript
The Tabard Inn, Southwark, around 1850
The Knight
The Squire
The Knight's Tale
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"The Knight's Tale" is the first tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
General Prologue
…condition', their 'array', and their social 'degree'. The narrator expresses admiration and praise towards the pilgrims' abilities. The pilgrims include a knight; his son, a squire; the knight's yeoman; a prioress, accompanied by a nun and the nun's priest; a monk; a friar; a merchant; a clerk; a sergeant of…
The first page of Knight's Tale in the Ellesmere manuscript
Emilia in the rose garden from Boccaccio's Teseida, French, c. 1460