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132: The Canterbury Tales

Sophomore Lit

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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Chaucer is actually some tone that we do have some records of his life. And he had always meant to collect all these stories together into this major, a enormous story cycle. But spoiler alert, he never did finish it. Theres some pieces that are fragmentary, like a, like the cook's tale, which we read,. It's unclear whether chaucer wrote that and it's been lost, or chaucer intended to write it - there's some speculation that he was going to move into a different story.

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