Презентация на тему The canterbury tales

film adaptation of tales.

known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered

the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.

an author, philosopher, alchemist and astronomer, Chaucer also maintained

an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat.

The Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame,

the Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Crusade, he is best known today for The Canterbury Tales.

of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end

of the 14th century.
It is a collection of 22 poetic and two prosaic stories, United by a common frame: tales pilgrims coming to worship the relics of Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury and described in the author's prologue to the work.

Chaucer, each of them had four stories to tell

(two on the way to Canterbury and two on the way back).
In «Canterbury tales», not used the uniform division of the verse, the poet freely varies verses and sizes. The predominant size of 5 jog pentameter with a pair rhythm.

the medieval English society: among them is the knight,

a monk, a priest, a doctor, a sailor, a merchant, a weaver, a cook, a yeoman etc.
Their history, partly traced back to the traditional subjects story, and partly had the original character

diverse on the subject, often connected with the theme

of love and betrayal; some of them satirically depicted abuse Catholic Church.
According to the Law Comstock «the Canterbury tales» were banned for distribution in the us, and even now printed with reductions due to obscenity.