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The History of Literature
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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Chaucer was writing 70, 80 years before the advent of print. So there wouldn't have been what we would sort of understand as a publisher relationship that would have even been possible. Once print comes in, he is choosing to publish certain kinds of texts and it's text in particular dialects,. It's things that it's things that he thinks will please the public.
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