The Tabard
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The Tabard was an inn in Southwark established in 1307, which stood on the east side of Borough High Street, at the road's intersection with the ancient thoroughfare to Canterbury and Dover. It was bu
The Tabard Inn, Southwark, around 1850; since demolished
Just before it was demolished in 1873
Blue Plaque on site in Talbot Yard
Tabard Inn Southwark 1810 by Philip Norman
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 Knight
The Squire